Migratory Birds

In recent years, especially for the new generations, it has become almost necessary to emigrate, since the cities of origin are increasingly devastated by climate change, the inaccessibility of new technologies and, in many cases, serious political, social and economic situations. 

Once we emigrate, behind us we left people that we love and we will never see again and feel their touch again. Our cities will become only memories.

When you ask an immigrant what their greatest nostalgia is, almost everyone would reply: “My food; the food of my town”. Therefore, if you want to know somebody’s life story, first get into their kitchen and taste its seasoning; It is in the kitchen where home’s soul lives, the place where everything is possible, especially the joy and the memory.

Migratory Birds is a personal photo project that began in Rosario, Argentina, in 2018 and ended three years later in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. To talk about the nostalgia and uprooting immigrants endure while trying to build a whole new life in a very different place.

This project was made by interviewing immigrants from different cultures who were living in Rosario, measuring and mirroring the distances traveled, the reasons and the circumstances of their journey.

It is a project that speaks about food culture as an identity, the never-ending cycle of emigration and the journeys that we have not only printed on our passports but also in our souls and our taste.

Andrea Salerno Jácome