In mid-2006, I traveled along Route 40, the legendary route that connects the north and south of Argentina for more than 5,000 kilometers along the base of the Andes mountain range. I was interested in stories about the European colonization of America, and I wondered what the experiences and feelings of the first Europeans who had traveled through those lands would have been like.
I set out to travel Route 40 to photograph the contrasts between the current inhabitants and the original natives (the Aymaras, the Huarpes, the Araucanians, the Mapuches), their descendants, and the different ways of life today compared to traditional customs.
Route of the emigrants who arrived in Argentina escaping from hunger, poverty and wars that have plagued Europe for so many periods of history and forced millions of people to seek survival elsewhere.
This work was awarded the Fotopress grant from la Caixa in 2007.