Biography:
Alejandra Rajal is a documentary photographer born and based in Mexico. Her vision focuses mainly on creating awareness of different realities, aiming to social conscience. Currently, she works as a freelance photographer dividing her time between...
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Focus:Photographer, Photojournalist, Documentary, Assignments, Storyteller, International Stories
Covering:Latin America,USA & Canada
Skills:Research, Translator, Photo Assisting, Color Correction, Photo Editing
A group of divers get ready in Mahahual, a small town in the south of Quintana Roo. The arrival of sargasso in the Caribbean started in 2014 and has been increasing with no signs of stopping.
Mexican marines hand-pick the sargasso from Mahahual´s port. They are in charge of taking care of sargasso's arrival in the sea but the bad weather prevented them from doing their usual duties.
Victor, a local activist, walks with Marcos the keeper of this land. He comes regularly to supervise the turtle nests because some people rob the eggs to sell them.
View from the Mahahual coast where the cruise ships arrive with tourists for the day, they keep the town alive but also are in big part responsible for the trash that arrives on the coastline.
On this day hundreds of baby fishes appeared dead on the shore of Mahahual. The bad weather receded the sea and with the sargasso there they couldn´t escape to deeper waters.
Manuela looks at the sea during sunset while she retrieves water from her well. She married Chac in Calderitas another coastal town but later they decided to settle in the Biosphere where live is calmer.
Jesús López and Deisy Ek Xool try to measure the deep of the latest sargasso arrival. The way climate changes is not linear and every day the ocean can bring something different to their backyard.