Attractive images seize Spain’s annual round-up of a thousand wild horses

Now, Saca 1504 pays homage to the yegüerizos, the Marismeños and the land that formed them. It displays the evolution of the area from royal looking grounds right into a sanctuary for wildlife and the evolution of a semi-feral farm animal right into a companion in conservation grazing. The stars are the yegüerizos, who help efforts to guard the land for future generations by plying centuries-old abilities.

Martell started his work on Saca 1504 as his grandfather’s life ended, however he needed the guide to finish with beginnings. One of his final images exhibits a yegüerizo holding Martell’s new child daughter.

There are additionally images of horses’ hoof prints beside the ocean and pictures of a doc created within the 1500s referred to as Lienzo de Tlaxcala. It footage Hernan Cortés astride a horse as he meets with the Tlaxcalans, who will assist him to overthrow the Aztecs. Hoof prints cowl their path.

“It’s probably one of the first representations of the horses [in America,]” Martell says. “Ending my work this way was recreating that trip the horses and this tradition of horse riding across the Atlantic. It went abroad, crossing the Atlantic Ocean, towards America. …My mother is from the States, so I wanted to have that crossing. A personal crossing, but also realizing that horses come from here, from Spain, and the tradition comes from here, from Spain.”