Statement

The content of my photographs is intimately linked to where I come from. I chose to visually document, through my photographs, the origins of my family, its history and my life as a Mexican living in Mexico City.

The photographic techniques I use are simple in-camera photo comps. Composing on the ground glass of a 4 x 5 view camera; by combining several images onto one piece of Black & White film. They are developed and printed by myself, the prints are done on fiber based paper and selenium, sepia or brown toned.

Uncomfortable with the common definition that “photography is a faithful method to reproduce reality”, I have taken the road of expressing the private theater of my mind through photographic manipulation.

Being the female body the purest expression of nature’s beauty, I have let her be the centre piece, to express feelings that can’t be captured by the human eye, feelings fed by surrealism where dreams and reality meet.