Electrificación focuses on the everyday realities of living with an unreliable electrical grid and distressed infrastructure in Puerto Rico, after repeated hurricanes and remaining damage. Rather than documenting the dramatic aftermath of storms, these photographs look at the quieter, ongoing ways these disruptions still affect daily life as seen through images of the landscape, architecture, power and distribution methods, and related places where people reside. The current situation is a complicated nexus of historical and current colonizing forces, tourism, beauty, political vulnerability, global warming, and local pride.

The images are interpretive rather than journalistic, exploring the small adjustments, developments and workarounds, and moments in-between storms with a fragile system. Additionally, this series investigates sites of power and electrification that suggest limitations in some places as well as potential alternatives moving forward.

By capturing these ordinary yet significant scenes, Electrificación reflects on the ways life continues in the face of an American system that doesn’t fully support this beautiful Caribbean territory as it should. While this series is specifically about Puerto Rico, the archipelago is at the forefront of global warming and offers an example of the fragility of the built world in a time when FEMA is being cut, storm tracking resources are being eliminated, wind and solar stipends are likely being slashed, and weather is getting more extreme.