Liminal Photography. Tracing the Fluid Borders of Insular Migration
CISLANDERUS Cultural Project: Text by Thenesoya Vidina Martín De la Nuez and Photos by Aníbal Martel
The coastal wetlands of Louisiana are part of the world’s seventh-largest river delta. A study published by the United States Department of the Interior concluded that between 1932 and 2010 approximately 4,877 km2 (1,883 square miles) of coastal Louisiana disappeared under water. What is the significance of this fact, you may ask, and what connection is there between this submerged land and the descendants of people from the Canary Islands living in Louisiana today, whose photographs we present here? Both stories, of the land and of these people, are stories of absences. The Canarian descendants are like the land they live in, a treasure on the verge of vanishing. The desire to capture something at the point of dissolving was the motive that led the photojournalist Aníbal Martel and myself to undertake the CISLANDERUS cultural project.
