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 2011 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.
Victor Rosales, a local activist, walks with Marcos Aviles 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.
Birdwatching is one of the favorite activities of the elders, they spend hours seeing different tropical birds come and go. Photo by: Florentino Bellos.
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.
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 Torres 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 life is calmer.
From left to right: Victor, Deisy, Samuel, Florentino, Manuela, Jesús and Juan. For 25 years, the family has been living in the Biosphere of Sian Ka´an known as the Amazonas of North America.