Yago Soria Díaz

Winter 2026 Cycle – Photography
Palma de Mallorca, Spain   yagosoria.com

From November to March, El Valle’s shore becomes the stage of a contemporary gold rush.

Fukú No Unagi follows glass-eel fishing as a local practice driven by foreign demand and shaped by the global economy, ecological pressure, and survival.

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Artist Statement Biography

Born in Mallorca in 1996, I left the island at nineteen and settled in El Valle, Samaná, a small fishing village in the Dominican Republic. What was initially meant to be a short stay gradually turned into a long-term way of living and working, shaping both my practice and my understanding of photography.

Since 2016, I have developed a long-term photographic practice rooted in everyday proximity rather than assignment or research. My work grows out of sustained relationships, returning to the same places over time and paying attention to small gestures, informal rituals, and the ways landscape and symbolism quietly structure daily life. The images often sit between the candid and the staged, allowing chance encounters to coexist with deliberate interventions.
While deeply anchored in the Dominican context, my practice has also extended to other cultural settings, where similar questions around symbols, consumption, and the act of looking reappear under different conditions.

I am currently returning to Mallorca, continuing to work through long-term projects while slowly reconnecting with the local cultural scene.

Born in Mallorca in 1996, I left the island at nineteen and settled in El Valle, Samaná, a small fishing village in the Dominican Republic. What was initially meant to be a short stay gradually turned into a long-term way of living and working, shaping both my practice and my understanding of photography.

Since 2016, I have developed a long-term photographic practice rooted in everyday proximity rather than assignment or research. My work grows out of sustained relationships, returning to the same places over time and paying attention to small gestures, informal rituals, and the ways landscape and symbolism quietly structure daily life. The images often sit between the candid and the staged, allowing chance encounters to coexist with deliberate interventions.
While deeply anchored in the Dominican context, my practice has also extended to other cultural settings, where similar questions around symbols, consumption, and the act of looking reappear under different conditions.

I am currently returning to Mallorca, continuing to work through long-term projects while slowly reconnecting with the local cultural scene.

Meet the Artist

Yago Soria Díaz's
Fukú no Unagi

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