








Entering
The Outside
This is an ongoing project“Let me put on my costume” a friend said as I waited for her in my car parked outside her apartment. A few minutes passed and then she came out looking seemingly normal - except perhaps a bit raggedy - and with a thin blue face mask which covered her smile.
We walked together towards a big tree on the street, and as we moved I felt a need, or almost a responsability to remind her the space between us had widen. I caught myself feeling a bit embarrassed of being a bit too excited of seeing someone different from my family for the first time in weeks. It was early April. I wasn’t sure where this project was going, and I’m still not sure where will it go.
But there is something I find captivating about this sudden need to dress almost in a soldier-like exercise to enter the outside. A costume in a way we have chosen, or a new character, even if there isn’t anything peculiar that catches the eye to those who know us, it is us who feel alienated from our image.
We walked together towards a big tree on the street, and as we moved I felt a need, or almost a responsability to remind her the space between us had widen. I caught myself feeling a bit embarrassed of being a bit too excited of seeing someone different from my family for the first time in weeks. It was early April. I wasn’t sure where this project was going, and I’m still not sure where will it go.
But there is something I find captivating about this sudden need to dress almost in a soldier-like exercise to enter the outside. A costume in a way we have chosen, or a new character, even if there isn’t anything peculiar that catches the eye to those who know us, it is us who feel alienated from our image.
I started this series by photographing friends, and I have expanded it since to photographing anyone that wants to be portrayed and has contacted me through the ads I have plastered acrossed my social media platforms.
Along with the participation of stangers, I have invited and encourage them to be as realistic or as fanciful as they feel like being, I remind them their uniform only serves their own given practicality, which in return can be as physical or emotional as they need it to be.
Disclaimer: All social distance measures were taken during the realization of these portraits. At the current date (September 1st 2020) all portraits have been performed in the city of Merida, Mexico.
Along with the participation of stangers, I have invited and encourage them to be as realistic or as fanciful as they feel like being, I remind them their uniform only serves their own given practicality, which in return can be as physical or emotional as they need it to be.
Disclaimer: All social distance measures were taken during the realization of these portraits. At the current date (September 1st 2020) all portraits have been performed in the city of Merida, Mexico.