Cuando hay luna llena, la marea sube

Join us for the launch of César Rodríguez’s newest book, Cuando hay luna llena, la marea sube on Wednesday, October 15 at 6 pm.

To mark the new release, Rodríguez will be speaking about his years of dedicated work documenting fragile landscapes and the communities that depend on them.

I made most of these photographs on analog film. Deliberately using cameras that are susceptible to "flaws" like light leaks and faulty mechanisms was a way to renounce visual control, resulting in fragmented and incomplete photographs. This was not an arbitrary decision; it’s a direct analogy to the broken and fragmented landscapes I documented that are in the midst of disappearance. Where light leaks destroy an image, we become witnesses to loss. The photobook was additionally designed to hold tension within its pages. Certain images appear fragmented and only find resolution in the fold. Water and salt slowly erode walls; similarly, the time that passes in absorbing the book makes its mark on the pages by revealing hidden layers of a shared history. 

This book intertwines images with voices: portraits of a fragile present and stories of those who resist, remember, and reconstruct from their loss. It is a visual document that seeks to reveal an urgent reality.