Nosara is located on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica in Central America. This place is part of the five "Blue Zones" in the World and has the most diverse residents and visitor's community. Today, women in Nosara outnumbered men, and most of them are surfers.
But what are the women looking for in this place? What attracts them to Nosara?
They have their own stories about what drove them to visualize in the ocean and in surfing a metaphor of struggle and acceptance to specific situations of typical conflict of the human beings such as childhood fears, an empty work routine, the fear of an illness, a divorce. Beyond a simple need for personal change, it is a rite of transformation through a female community that shares the passion for a sport that requires considerable physical and mental strength.
This photographic project I pursue to analyze and value the existence of a geographical place like Nosara that is a female sanctuary, underling the unique relationship between each woman with natural elements; and where an emotional promotion of ideas of freedom, emancipation, and sisterhood live both on land and in water.
This project in progress is composed of twenty women's micro-narratives from different countries through South Africa, Denmark, the United States, Germany, Russia, and Costa Rica.
