Edited by Estudio India

In 2015, Gonzalo Lauda traveled to the Falkland Islands, along with the son of a pilot who disappeared in the ocean thirty-six years earlier, marathon runner Marcelo de Bernardis, and a historian.

In one week, he took nearly three thousand photos. From that collection, with the help of his editors, he selected the forty-nine images that make up the book Malvinas (India Ediciones, 2017). Additionally, nineteen of those photos composed the exhibition that was displayed at the Malvinas Islands and South Atlantic Museum in 2018.

His photos predominantly reflect the perspective of a walker.

"In the Falkland Islands, one day feels like many days. Everything starts over and over again, or nothing ends. The sun rises and clouds over, it rains and snows, the sun comes out."

"There were days when we left the city. We would distance ourselves, and then the contact with nature was even more brutal. The wind, the frost, the intense cold, and the humidity. The white and frozen sand, the moss, and the stones. And the water. All surrounded by water."

We know so little about the Falklands! Yet, at the same time, what we do know deeply moves us. That is why works like this allow us to backtrack from misunderstandings and oversimplifications and, in the process, open up as pathways to think about our connection with the islands in a different way. Art constructs where politics or history sometimes fall silent or are insufficient. (Lorenz, 2017)

Printed in June 2017 ISBN 978-3-16-148410-0

Photographs Gonzalo Lauda laudafotografia.com

Editing Eugenia Rodeyro and Victoria Blanco estudioindia.com.ar

Art direction and design Tomás Ruiz and Santiago Goria thisistender.com

Translation Ana Laura Bellesi

Digital retouching Fulano Mengano

© 2017, Estudio India S.A. © Gonzalo Lauda