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Story About Friends

2018

Story About Friends is the continuation of my series Story About Gnomes, where I made self-portraits and portraits of my niece when she was three years old. For Story About Friends I worked in collaboration with my niece in her tenth birthday. During family reunions we created photographs in which both appeared in the frame and decided the costumes, the action and the place, improvising ambiguous narratives about friendship.

I was motivated to document her growth, especially the moment in which her body reached and passed my own scale, an age where my own body stopped growing. These two friends make a world of relations and contrasts by juxtaposing their bodies of different gender. In the images I generate a visual illusion where the limits between childhood and adulthood begin to dispel, by altering the rules of conventional photography. A boundary that also blurs when the adult enters into the child's world, and the child commits with an adult's project.

The images explore ideas related to duality, transformation and transition, from a point of view where both physiques on the surface look similar. Nevertheless, when you look at them closely both of the figures are essentially different.

 
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Story About Friends

Todo lo tengo, todo me falta
Artecámara - ARTBO

 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Sleepyheads)
 
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Cacti
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Tropic)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Hoodies)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Pillow Fight)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Shadow Puppets)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (BMX)
 
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Reading Break
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Boo!)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Tardy)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Sprinkler Play)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Pareidolia)
 
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Bowling Pins
 
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Mickey Mouse
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Rollercoaster)
 
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Cave
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Hide and Seek)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Hoodies II)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Christmas Cookies)
 
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Gingerbread People
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Girls and Boys)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Zissou Crew)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Watchtower)
 
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Self-Portrait with my Niece (Inflatables)
 
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Froot Loops
 
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Fried Eggs
 
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Self-portrait with my Niece (Splash)
 
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Self-portrait with my Niece (Sunset)