I’m about to set off again… for a new journey. I’m going to take the « Yahgan » ferry once more, the same one that introduced me to the Strait of Magellan and the mouth of the Beagle Channel (Onashaga in the Yahgan language).
In 2023, I embarked in Punta Arenas, Chile, bound for Puerto Williams on Navarino Island, a short distance from Ushuaia, Argentina. During the 32-hour voyage, I had, for the first time, the feeling of traveling back in time—the history of navigation, but also the history of the people who settled in these channels more than 10,000 years ago, the last of whom disappeared in the early 20th century, in barely a decade. Like a recurring theme, this photographic series aims to bear witness to and remember the history of these « sea nomads » and their inseparable connection to this landscape, both majestic and tragic. The photographs aim to show the force of the elements that shaped these mountains and glaciers, which later served as a limit and a border for men who until then had not known any.