Chronicle of a disappearance foretold
I took these photos of wild animals in early 2024 in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.
In this series of photographs, each animal seems to merge into a texture that gradually engulfs it, until it disappears completely.
This symbolic fusion with the surrounding matter embodies the fragility of their existence in the face of human and environmental pressures.
The boundaries between the animal and its habitat blur, as if to depict their gradual erasure, their loss of uniqueness, and perhaps, their silent and irreversible disappearance.
This visual work invites us to contemplate the uncertain fate of these species, threatened by deforestation, climate change, pollution, and hunting.
As they slowly fade into the elements around them, each animal becomes a shadow, a silhouette, a memory—a reflection of our inability to protect the diversity around us.
Through these images, we question our relationship with living beings. Perhaps, soon, all that will remain of certain species will be the memory of their forms, evanescent, floating between dream and disappearance.
This series reminds us that as animals blend with their environment, it is our own humanity that we are losing.
