In August 1917, during the First World War, the ship steamer Llanishen is torpedoed by a German war submarine near the coasts of Cadaqués and ended up sinking in the cove of Es Caials. A family of Greek sailors, the Kontos, arrives to the Alt Empordà region to work on scrapping the shipwreck. This family will end up settling in Cadaqués, devoting the rest of their lives to explore the depths of the sea, working as divers and coral fishermen.

Taking this real chronicle as a starting point,“The ballads of the Coral” is a photographic essay halfway between documentary and the imagined territory. The work raises an approach to people, fauna and flora linked to a world as unknown to the author, as that of the depths of the sea, in a scenario of a telluric force as unique as is Cap de Creus.

* This project was developed within the framework of the artistic residency of In-Cadaqués photo festival.