Be a Chilean Lumberjack

Due to the economy and wheather condition, Chilean lumberjacks today have to push themselves work into even more remote areas like the small islands of the archipelago of the southern fjords of the country. They have to face isolation, bad weather condition, scarcity of resourses, and have to enfront even difficult social relations. Physical problems are the normality in everyday life like psychological ones. Spending long isolated days in woods and in remote places, lumberjacks live continuous psychological introspections and personal reflections: on existence, on spirituality, on the relationship with nature, with trees and even their own fragility and often on death. The small things, the small gestures are the only holds of the personal attempt to salvation and survive. Listening to a voice or song on a radio simulates human closeness and warmth. Building repetitive rituals marks the passage of the real time: lighting the fire, drinking a mate, collecting wood, cutting 4 trunks and resting for a cigarette and then resuming again. Like trees, their roots, their family becomes the fundamental nucleus of their existence. A continuous struggle against everything and against themselves.