The Town That Lost Its Heart ❤️ / #monomad challenge / [ING/ESP]

The photos 📸 are my entry to the #monomad contest from @monochromes and @brumest.

Greetings hivers.

A few months ago I had the privilege of participating in a photographic project with a wonderful group of friends. We traveled to a town that seems to have stopped in time since the country’s authorities decided to demolish all the sugar mills, for reasons that many people still do not fully understand. From one moment to the next, the heart of many towns like this one stopped beating, and with it the lives of the people who lived there changed forever.

The people we see in today’s photos were former workers of that sugar mill. When it closed, they had to reinvent themselves in order to survive. Some became day laborers, others started selling whatever they could, and many simply had to adapt to a completely different reality. Each of them, in their own way, had to accept the imposed change and carry out radical transformations in their lives.

With this post I want to share a first approach to this story. In the coming posts I will tell you more about this place, its people, and the marks that moment left on their lives.

I hope you like it. I will be reading you.

Saludos hivers.

Hace unos meses tuve el privilegio de participar en un proyecto fotográfico con un grupo maravilloso de amigos. Viajamos a un pueblo que parece haberse detenido en el tiempo, desde que las autoridades del país decidieron demoler todos los centrales azucareros, por motivos que aún hoy muchos no logran comprender. De un momento a otro el corazón de muchos pueblos como este dejó de latir y, con ello, también cambió para siempre la vida de quienes habitaban estos lugares.

Las personas que vemos en las fotos de hoy fueron trabajadores de aquel central. Cuando cerró, tuvieron que reinventarse para poder sobrevivir. Algunos pasaron a trabajar como jornaleros, otros se dedicaron a vender lo que podían, y muchos simplemente tuvieron que adaptarse a una realidad completamente distinta. Cada uno, a su manera, tuvo que aceptar ese cambio y transformar radicalmente su forma de vida.

Con este post quiero compartir un primer acercamiento a esa historia. En próximas publicaciones les iré contando más sobre este lugar, su gente y las huellas que dejó aquel momento en sus vidas.

Espero que les guste. Los leo.

"All photos were taken by me @rg2_foto @rg2-foto"

Technical data: Nikon camera: Nikon D700 Nikon lens: 50mm f1.4 p-ais; 105mm f2.5 p-ais; 55 f1.2; 35mm f1.8 G Translated by Deepl free version.7