“Children of the Ocean” is a series of photographs taken during the 2020 Covid pandemic in Canary Islands, Spain when, gradually and limitedly, circulation began to be allowed.

With images of local families on an island deprived of its constant tourists, these series explore the experience of social distancing in a rural area, where space and nature are plentiful and appreciated at the same time as human presence is scarce and the required “confinement” doesn’t propose something significantly different from the daily life that people normally lead in these places.

At the beginning of the year, when the state of alarm was declared in Spain, I was in the middle of a trip and the uncertainty along with the closure of borders forced me to stay indefinitely in La Palma. While my friends, family and beloved ones were in locked down far away in the city of Buenos Aires, I spent those days on a small island in the middle of the sea, isolated from the pandemic itself.

It’s in such exceptional contexts that distances and our relationship with our surroundings paradoxically become inverted. In such a natural and remote nook, closeness between people and freedom was now much greater than in a city of millions of immobilized inhabitants.

While receiving news of everything that was happening through screens, my reality showed me children running under the sun, making snow angels on the shore’s black sand and collecting seashells, living with their families in caves amidst cliffs. “Social distance”  was nothing more than the natural distance that the space itself initially placed between us.

 And so, in situations that make us reconsider everything we were accustomed to and the lifestyle we were leading, that place us so far away from each other yet simultaneously equalize distances virtually, that turn society upside down on a global level; I decide to take these pictures. Warm, close, physical and open-aired images, aiming to make visible another type of reality that was unfolding in the meantime, far away from a big city, in these strange and difficult times.

Children of the Ocean

“Children of the Ocean” is a series of photographs taken during the 2020 Covid pandemic in Canary Islands, Spain when, gradually and limitedly, circulation began to be allowed.

With images of local families on an island deprived of its constant tourists, these series explore the experience of social distancing in a rural area, where space and nature are plentiful and appreciated at the same time as human presence is scarce and the required "confinement" doesn't propose something significantly different from the daily life that people normally lead in these places.

At the beginning of the year, when the state of alarm was declared in Spain, I was in the middle of a trip and the uncertainty along with the closure of borders forced me to stay indefinitely in La Palma. While my friends, family and beloved ones were in locked down far away in the city of Buenos Aires, I spent those days on a small island in the middle of the sea, isolated from the pandemic itself.

It’s in such exceptional contexts that distances and our relationship with our surroundings paradoxically become inverted. In such a natural and remote nook, closeness between people and freedom was now much greater than in a city of millions of immobilized inhabitants.

While receiving news of everything that was happening through screens, my reality showed me children running under the sun, making snow angels on the shore’s black sand and collecting seashells, living with their families in caves amidst cliffs. “Social distance”  was nothing more than the natural distance that the space itself initially placed between us.

 And so, in situations that make us reconsider everything we were accustomed to and the lifestyle we were leading, that place us so far away from each other yet simultaneously equalize distances virtually, that turn society upside down on a global level; I decide to take these pictures. Warm, close, physical and open-aired images, aiming to make visible another type of reality that was unfolding in the meantime, far away from a big city, in these strange and difficult times.