Alejandro Chaskielberg
www.chaski.com.ar
The Foreigner
The Paraguayans
Double
The High Tide
The Fall
Burning Willows
The dumb ones
Her own water
The Seeker
The Rusher
Alejandro Chaskielberg
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By establishing a deep relationship with the subjects,
Alejandro combines his firsthand fieldwork experience with his foundation in documentaries, creating a strong visual representation. He uses special techniques involving large- and medium-format cameras, combined with flash, to document his
subjects intimately. Through his use of natural light and flash, Alejandro is able to break the limits of traditional documentary photography to create a striking visual image while staying true to the subject.
The lower Delta of the Parana River was the site of the first modern settlements in the Paraná-Plata basin near Buenos Aires, Argentina.
This photographic work focuses on the communities within these islands. Because of unemployment and immigration, this community has had continuous change from a wave of immigrants that work in forestation during winter.
I photographed this community under the moonlight, with long-time exposures and using a large-format camera. Thus, I set up scenes with local inhabitants and Paraguayan immigrants to show a new culture that has formed in these islands—a culture with its
own laws and codes, a by-product of unemployment and the immigration, in this estuary that is unique in the world, with a dense forest full of water and silence.
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