La Creciente

『La Creciente』 is a photobook by Argentinian photographer Alejandro CHASKIELBERG.

This masterpiece, created over three years while residing in the Paraná River Delta, is a collection of works that fantastically depict the daily lives of people living along the river using long exposure and moonlight.

CHASKIELBERG, who began his career as a photojournalist, attempted not merely to document but to "tell the story of the land from within" in this work. He lived with the islanders, crossing the river in a small boat, and re-enacted scenes from their daily lives at night. The photographs, taken with 5 to 10-minute long exposures using the light of the full moon, flashlights, lanterns, and flashes, create a unique sense of time that floats between reality and illusion.

Furthermore, by freely controlling the focal plane with the tilt-shift function of a large format camera, he created spatial distortions and depths unfamiliar in ordinary photographs, emphasizing the dreamlike fantasy of the landscapes. In addition to long exposure, the complex mixture of moonlight, ambient light, and flashlight beams creates screens with unique coloration, despite being nighttime scenes. This surreal color sense is also an important element that characterizes this work.

Fishermen, loggers, children. While the people depicted in the images are real individuals, their figures also resemble characters from myths or dreams. This expression, which is documentary photography yet simultaneously imbued with fictionality, re-examines the very conventional concept of photography that "captures moments."

The foreword is by Martin PARR. He praised this work as "mature and new photography that he had never seen before," highly evaluating it as a work where documentary and stylistic qualities are fused at a high level.

An early representative work by Alejandro CHASKIELBERG, published by Nazraeli Press.

[Title] La Creciente

[Publisher] Nazraeli Press
[Publication Date] 2011
[Page Count] 64 pages
[Size] Approx. 313 x 289 x 13mm / 926g
[Format] Hardcover
[Language] English
[Title Reading] La Creciente
[Author/Editor] Alejandro CHASKIELBERG/Author, Martin PARR/Foreword
[Printing] -
[ISBN] 9781590053218
[Condition] Used【6】Good to Very Good (slight scratches on cover and spine corners, slight scratches on endpapers)
[Accessories] None
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Alejandro CHASKIELBERG (Born 1977)

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1977. Photographer.

After working as a photojournalist, he established his unique photographic expression using long exposure and artificial light. He gained international attention for his works that transcend the boundaries between documentary and staging, reality and fantasy.

In his representative work 『La Creciente』, he fantastically depicted the daily lives of people living in the Paraná River Delta in Argentina using the light of the full moon and long exposure. In 2011, he won World Photographer of the Year (Sony World Photography Awards).

His work is characterized by its social documentation combined with cinematic direction and color sense, and is highly regarded as a new possibility for contemporary documentary photography.

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