Michal, one of Karolina Ćwik’s subjects in a yet untitled series. Image © Karolina Ćwik.
Every summer, on the beaches on the outskirts of Carboneras, a city in southern Spain, vendors gather together to sell food, drinks, and various wares to vacationers. Attracted by the bohemian lifestyle, as well as the lack of oversight — the beaches require a hike down cliffs that deter police involvement — the vendors have fascinating backgrounds, often giving up promising careers in exchange for complete freedom.
For example, Michal is a Polish journalist who quit his job, bought a canoe, and headed to Carboneras to sell beer. His story, along with many others, inspired Polish photographer Karolina Ćwik to pick up her camera, and start taking portraits, when she visited a friend in Carboneras earlier this summer.
Ćwik is fascinated, she says, by the lives of people like Marija, a Spanish woman who sells jewelry on the beach. “I think they are doing it to have more strength for the fast and uncompromising life in cities,” she says.
Ćwik took portraits of Michal, Marija, and others with a medium format camera using natural lighting at sunrise and sunset. The emerging series is still evolving. Ćwik would like to return to photograph people like Anna, a scientist who sells things on the beaches of Spain in the summer, and Brazil in the winter.
In the meantime, Ćwik recently started a course in photography at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic. To learn more about her work, follow her on Instagram.
Below is a selection of images from the series. All images © Karolina Ćwik. 
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