I've started this series in 2010 in Chile (Chiloé Island, Ancud) where I was born in 1969 and where I lived until 1998 when I moved to Switzerland. Juan Barría and Ricardo Villegas are my neighbors in Ancud. They've been working as seaweed collectors since their childhood, always accompanied by their dogs. The sea is the only source of life of most of the people in Chiloé but now things began to change drastically with the arrival of progress and globalization. Chile is the second-biggest producer of farmed salmon in the world after Norway. Chiloé residents blame the salmon industry and the government for the contamination, alleging that the red tide began just after 4,000 tons of dead salmon were dumped some kilometers from the island. I've made the last photos of this series in February 2016 in Ancud, only a few months before the catastrophe.
