For me Tintype ( a photographic process from the 1860´s ) is a reencounter of a contemporary expression combined with a historical art.
In most sessions, I was under time constraints to portray the fishermen as they were either departing or arriving to work, leaving again minutes after I had captured their image.
However fleeting these encounters, I always felt grateful to them for giving me a moment of their precious breaks. Respite is brief for these men, especially after a tiring day at sea.
Portraying them in their work environment was crucial for this project, granting me access to a truthful essence.
I took the images in Tintype, which requires great care and motionless patience from the sitter, it took me three months to capture “Los pescadores de Palma”.
This tribute is for the men working in la Lonja, to appreciate and recognize their work in a trade passed from one generati
