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.
Juan Tuz dives in to get some fish to eat for the day. He arrived during the pandemic after the school shut down. Being a city teen from Chetumal, he had to learn how to fish.
From left to right: Victor, Deisy, Samuel, Florentino, Manuela, Juan and Jesús. For 25 years, the family has been living in the Biosphere of Sian Ka´an known as the Amazonas of North America.
Every weekend the townspeople from Mahahual get together to collect the garbage that arrives from the coastline. There is a registry of origin from over 60 countries.
Manuela stares at the sea while she retrieves water from her well. She has been living inside the Biosphere of Sian Ka'an for the last 25 years and has been witnessing how much her home has changed with the sargasso and trash arriving every morning.
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.
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.
Jesús López and Deisy Ek Xool try to measure the depth of the latest sargasso arrival. The way climate changes is not linear and every day the ocean can bring something different to their backyard.