Dry the river mirrors Mari's interest in landscapes and humans living in them, trying to make sense of their place. It is a collection of photographs, texts and items from a large scale engineering project involving re-directing a river once flowing through the city centre of the Spanish town of Valencia. Although the riverbed - which was finally transformed into a 9km stretch of parks and recreation grounds - is today very popular among its users, the history behind the development, and current events have proven to be complicated and multi-facetted. Dry the river is also about an outsider’s attempt to try to understand something she is not part of - not even sharing the same language.

Dry the River is a self-published book.

Exhibited at Brighton Photo Fringe 2014 and Freerange 2014, London.


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