Limits of Salt… for the #monomad challenge

There are coasts where the waves do not simply kiss the rocks; they wear them down, crack them open, and shape them until they forget what they once were.

Limits of Salt is a photographic series that traces fragments of Havana’s shoreline — from Miramar to the Malecón — in black and white, where the sea is both a boundary and a mirror.

The images were captured in 2017, at the very beginning of my journey as a photographer. They were made with the humble tools I had at the time: a Canon 400D with an 18-55 mm lens and an iPhone 5. What I lacked in equipment, I made up for with the restless gaze of someone just beginning to observe the world with intention.

Here, broken piers, weathered facades, and the distant gazes of those who live by the coast do not just tell the story of a country; they reflect the universal memory of departures, waiting, and absence.

In every image, there is an echo: the texture of what leaves and the shape of what remains.

These photographs do not seek easy nostalgia. They aim for something deeper: that suspended moment where the sea and the city look at each other with no promises. Where every breaking wave is also a thought that does not return.

In black and white, because sometimes color distracts… and the rawest emotions only reveal themselves when the grayscale speaks.