Immigrant Song (2017-2018)

During Trump's administration, the inhumanity of the United States policy against immigrants has aroused my anger. As an immigrant to this country myself, it has inspired me to create this project.

Immigrant Song consists of diptychs, each one including the portrait of an immigrant and a still life of the arrangement he or she made with four stones. The underlying idea is to shoot a double portrait, figural and abstract: one showing the face, the other something that the individuals have created.

With this work, I give a voice to immigrants and let their pride shine through.

I photograph my portraits with a plastic lens that lacks definition to transcribe visually some of the loss of identity experienced by immigrants. Using an alternative process, my images are transferred to watercolor paper. This technique, that symbolizes the movement from one country to another and from one life to another, can be as unpredictable as the immigration process and show unexpected results.