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María Paula Martínez Jáuregui is a photographer. freelance who has published his most recent photographic work in his book entitled "Pandemic"She is the same one who is behind the lens of Siete Mares, and the same one who is in charge of Covid-19 in Mexico City's public hospitals.
Siete Mares or Antonio Argüelles, known as such by an exclusive sporting guild in Mexico, is the only open water swimmer who since 2009 to date has crossed the English, Catalina, Molokai and North channels and the Straits of Tsugaru, Gibraltar and Cook and is currently training to make, in July and early August, a double crossing of the English Channel.
Antonio Angüelles Siete Mares is also Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, a title for which it is necessary to complete three long distance swims: the English Channel, the Catalina Channel and the circumnavigation of the island of Manhattan.
But the dream of crossing the most dangerous seas in the world was silently woven from the small family pool that Antonio Arguelles frequented on childhood trips and that was revealed before his eyes when he witnessed one of the most emblematic Mexican Olympic triumphs at his young age of nine: the victory of "El Tibio" Felipe Muñoz in the '68 Olympics.
Maria Paula Martinez began photographing Seven Seas work in 2019 as she needed someone to cover in images her training in La Jolla, California to prepare for crossing the Catalina Channel.
It was through a family recommendation that María Paula's work attracted the attention of the swimmer, from that moment and every time there is training or competition, the photographer travels in the open sea next to Argüelles on a kayak and in the company of the personal trainer of the open water swimmer, the Uruguayan Rafael Álvarez. María Paula is a professional freelance photographer since 2018, one of her first jobs was the realization of a photo documentary of marine conservation in Revillagigedo. She is also a certified drone pilot and scuba diving photographer.
María Paula Martínez's book "Pandemic" is out now and you can find it here:
