Marta,
cuando alguien se va alguien se queda
A family album project that was born due to emigrating from Venezuela, my hometown and that I made with Cristina, my twin, at a distance.
After I left the country, I didn’t know I wasn’t coming back, so the pain grew inside me once I realised I would never see my house again. My anxiety for saving memories took me to build this project and helped me let go as a therapy.
I feel nostalgic for that place that saw me grow up and for the people around me, especially my sister, from whom I had never been separated. I remember Marta as in the book La casa de Bernarda Alba; a home full of women were taking care of the family becomes cyclical. I managed to leave and become independent, but Cristina remained in those empty spaces, waiting to meet us again.
Cristina and I were back together, and all our family was around the world.
Photobook
Marta
Documentary project based on the family album.
I left my home Marta in 2015. This book is the only memory I have of her. I handled the nostalgia of not being there by exploring my family album and sharing pictures with my twin who at the time was still there.
Build Your Family Album
Workshop
Our personal photos give us a platform to communicate our thoughts, emotions, feelings, and memories. My idea is to create a place or platform where people can share or channel their frustration of being in a different environment, work with them in a creative way to go through the process of resilience, generating options to respond to their external stressors in order to work and strengthen their relationship with the community.
Workshop
Exhibition
Projects
In the Morning Birds Were Singing
A collection of poetry and stories, fiction and non-fiction, photos and illustrations, this timely anthology challenges preconceptions about migration and the people who migrate. Celebrating the creativity and resilience of refugees who are part of the Stories & Supper community, this is ultimately a book about hope.
This is my second book with them where I took part doing the portraits and sharing my stories.
More than a Recipe Book
Stories & Supper is a community of refugees and immigrants based in Waltham Forest keen to challenge the negative headlines about refugees while bringing people together over delicious food.
Last year (2019) I was invited to take the portraits for the recipe book and participated in it with my story of how I became an immigrant.
BL Magazine
Jon Watkins is an Editorial Director, Journalist and Consultant who gave an interview for the Business’s Life Issue 66.
Salt n Pepper
Salt n Pepper is an independent publisher based in Leeds, UK, printing contemporary photography and art. Participation in Issue 1
What do you see?
A Visual Storytelling in isolation times.
On times where we have to isolate ourselves, where we’re not able to meet with friends or even go out to work, I bring you a creative exercise where you will share with others “What Do You See?”, using your perspective, memory and storytelling to communicate an exquisite corpse, a new narrative a visual poem.
The mission with this exercise is to help those who’re feeling most vulnerable about isolation helping them to express feelings through art as a self-exploration of the unknown.
To participate click the button below.