Alejandro Chaskielberg was the guest of honor at the exhibition entitled “Subjective / Objective” that Elisabeth Biondi organized during the New York Photo Festival which ended today. Alejandro has also received the l’Iris d’Or Photography Award in the recent London’s Sony World Photography Awards.

In the project The High Tide, Alejandro Chaskielberg has documented the Paraná River Delta and the community of islanders who live there.

The Paraná is one of South America’s major rivers. Running through three countries — Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina — the Paraná supplies water for more than one hundred million people. Although the Paraná Delta is very close to Buenos Aires, its vegetation is very unusual for these latitudes because the river carries down animals and seeds from the subtropical climate of southern Brazil. The Delta region used to be one of the major fruit producers, due to its extremely humid climate, but after several major floods during the last century most of the people who once lived there have left the islands.

Chaskielberg has lived in the Delta for two years in two different periods. He began to meet with the islanders randomly and started to photograph them at night. In order to capture these images, he utilized a 4×5″ large format camera and flashlights. Asking the islanders to remain still for several minutes, Chaskielberg was able to make long exposures, allowing the full moon to play a key role in composition and lighting.