DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER & Visual Journalist

Aníbal Martel is a documentary photographer working through long-term research and sustained field engagement. His practice focuses on cultural memory, migration, identity, and the relationship between communities and place. Operating at the intersection of documentary practice and visual anthropology, his work examines how history persists through landscape, labor, ritual, and intergenerational transmission. His long-term cultural project *CISLANDERUS* traces the legacy of Canary Island descendants in the United States and has been presented in museum and academic contexts. Martel collaborates with institutions, curators, and researchers engaged in contemporary documentary practices rooted in cultural heritage and social history.

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER & Visual Journalist

Aníbal Martel is a documentary photographer working through long-term research and sustained field engagement. His practice focuses on cultural memory, migration, identity, and the relationship between communities and place. Operating at the intersection of documentary practice and visual anthropology, his work examines how history persists through landscape, labor, ritual, and intergenerational transmission. His long-term cultural project *CISLANDERUS* traces the legacy of Canary Island descendants in the United States and has been presented in museum and academic contexts. Martel collaborates with institutions, curators, and researchers engaged in contemporary documentary practices rooted in cultural heritage and social history.

CISLANDERUS Cultural Project

Lurigancho Prison, Lima, Peru

Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Park Slope Food Coop, NY, Brooklyn, USA

Sahrawi: in No Man’s Land, Algeria

Home Run — Waiting for a Home, Cuba

Tanning and Dyeing Leather, Morocco

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Europe

Mapuche, southern Chile

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