2013
Fotografía digital
El Guayabo is a district located in the department of Ica, on the southern coast of Peru. It is inhabited primarily by the Afro-Peruvian community settled in the area for more than five centuries, establishing a vital cultural imprint within our ethnic and racial plurality.
The population of El Guayabo does not exceed 500 inhabitants and is dedicated mainly to cotton cultivation, functioning as a supply network for the micro-industry. This fertile zone was one of the most affected by the 2007 earthquake, but unlike other localities, El Guayabo has not benefited from humanitarian aid channels. As a consequence, the area has undergone a drastic migratory exodus toward Lima.
El Guayabo reveals a depopulated landscape, one mutilated by political abandonment. Yet at the same time, the project reveals a territory that, shaped by its coexistence with its inhabitants, resists disappearance, subtly showing symbolic and energetic signs of life.