At Beaches around the World, a Photographer Finds Hope and Home Venezuelan photographer Silvana Trevale navigates discomfort, longing, and unfamiliar rhythms by turning first to the sea, and then to herself. Featured - March 5, 2021 Reality is a rhythm often confirmed by its disruption . And for Venezuelan photographer Silvana Trevale, venturing to the sea is a lifelong strategy for embracing the moments when her rhythms are rattled. Throughout her childhood, Trevale would spend weekends at her grandmother’s home in the coastal town of Mamporal, Venezuela. Here, a young Trevale learned how to consult the horizon. “Water is hopeful,” she tells me, “it’s an opening, a relief, and it’s beautiful.”