Bitter watermelons

OF HUNGRY

Before leaving her inert body due to heat stroke next to an outpatient clinic, Eleazar Blandón had photographed herself for her family on the Murcia farm where she worked. Behind him is a row of containers overflowing with watermelons. Each of these pallets are filled with fruits weighing up to eight kilos that the seasonal workers collect from the ground. They carry three or four in baskets and deposit them there with care, because because of their weight and oval shape they are a fragile merchandise. Harvesting begins early under the relentless justice imparted by the sun, with temperatures that ...

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