DESIERTO SUR
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This project emerges from a personal and enduring relationship with the desert. Since childhood, some of my earliest memories have been shaped by long journeys with my family along the South Pan-American Highway, travelling from Lima, Peru, south along the continent. For thousands of kilometres, the landscape unfolded as an immense, seemingly endless desert, interrupted only occasionally by fertile green valleys and the Pacific Ocean beyond the window. Those journeys shaped my understanding of space, distance, solitude, and nature's overwhelming presence.

Human beings have learned to transform and dominate most environments, bending them to their needs and desires. The desert, however, resists that control. It remains indifferent to human ambition — self-contained, self-sustained, and profoundly autonomous. Spending time in the desert creates a sensation of reduction and clarity, as if everything unnecessary falls away and one is confronted with a more essential version of oneself. In this sense, the desert becomes both a physical territory and a psychological space.

Through this project, I explore how our collective memory of the environment is changing, shaped by time, intervention, displacement, and perception. I am interested in creating spaces that speak simultaneously of presence and absence, evidence and silence. The desert reveals traces subtly: through erosion, infrastructure, abandonment, and the marks left by human passage.

For the past five years, I have photographed the southern desert while driving endless hours along the Pan-American Highway. The work is both documentary and introspective — a self-reflection shaped through repetition, distance, and observation. Compared to other landscapes, the desert possesses a singular force of nature and character; it reminds us of our fragility, our scale, and the limits of our control.