Alejandro Chaskielberg is an Argentinean photojournalist who visits places most of us only read about. His current show at Gallery 916 in the Takeshiba district of Tokyo's Minato Ward, brings together two photographic series, one from his time in Argentina and the other from Kenya.

"High Tide" documents the lives of workers in Argentina's Parana River Delta region, focusing on the few people left living there as the culture around them changes and slowly disappears. To protect and revitalize both the local culture and wildlife threatened with extinction due to the rapid industrialization of the area, it has been declared a National Park and Reserve.

In "High Tide," loggers sit in front of campfires while boats are dragged from the delta and people clamber onto riverbanks while others sit porch-side at night and sing. These relaxed images are far from ones of the developing country we have grown used to seeing in magazine and film photojournalism of a land under threat from industrialization and pollution. Instead they're painterly, abstract and at times visually deceiving, with images looking film-like and his subjects looking like they are actors in a movie. Chaskielberg employs long exposures to take photos of people who, while appearing mid-action, are in fact silently still.