« When the Moon Is Full, the Tide Rises »
When the Moon Is Full, the Tide Rises is a visual and testimonial journey through coastal communities in Mexico, facing the devastation of the sea.
Eroded by time and climate change, these places are witnessing the disappearance not only of their homes, but also of their culture, their traditions, and their way of life.
The sea — once their source of sustenance — now advances relentlessly.
Waves consume the land, topple houses, and force many families, most of them fishing households, to abandon their communities and move inland, to territories estranged from their identity.
Most of the photographs were taken on analog film.
By deliberately using cameras with “flaws” — light leaks, unstable mechanisms — the artist relinquishes control of the image, allowing photographs to emerge incomplete, fragmented. This is no coincidence: it mirrors the landscapes themselves, broken, interrupted, vanishing at an accelerated pace.
The light that seeps into the negatives not only distorts the image — it becomes a witness of loss.
The book was conceived from the friction between its pages, where some images fragment and only find meaning in the fold.
Just as water and salt slowly erode the walls of houses, time — and the reader’s touch — leaves its mark among the pages, revealing hidden layers of a shared story.
A dialogue of images and voices, When the Moon Is Full, the Tide Rises intertwines portraits of a fragile present with the testimonies of those who resist, remember, and rebuild from loss.
A visual document that makes an urgent reality visible.
Photography -
@cesar_rodriguezb
Edition and AD -
@musukn
Editorial -
@kwy_ediciones
Arts -
@raul_benua
Print and Production -
@hagolibros
Executive Production -
@dalmataprod /
@cesar_rodriguezb /
@romain.lecour
With the generous support of
@sistemacreacion 
