This series was created in Argentina, in the Pampas region, within a cattle slaughterhouse.

Beef, a central element of the Argentine diet, leads to the slaughter of nearly five million cows each year.

Argentine writer Juan Pablo Meneses, in his book Cash Trilogy, describes how the consumption of beef is deeply rooted in the country’s lifestyle and economy: “I have a cow, I’m going to kill it.” According to him, it is the simplest and most honest project one can have in Argentina.

These images convey the disturbing feeling that this place evoked in me, not only the horror of animal suffering, but also the normalization of such brutality among the slaughterhouse workers. The intention is not to judge them, but to question the broader system of consumption that sustains this reality.

The environment itself was equally striking. In the heart of an arid landscape, the slaughterhouse stands like an artificial oasis, consuming a significant portion of the region’s scarce water resources.

During shooting, I chose to overexpose the images, almost as a voluntary act of blindness. The visual information was later recovered during the scanning of the negatives.