La Graciosa

At the end of 1969 a young German couple of television documentary filmmakers happened to come across the small island of La Graciosa north of Lanzarote. Those were times before the arrival of tourism, when there was neither electricity nor running water. The houses were left open and both the communal chores and the long-suffering fruits of the sea were shared among all members of the population.

This is the photographic testimony of the love that arose between this couple and a peculiar, genuine and hard land, populated by authentic people of the sea.