
Para ser como todos
- Publisher
- HYDRA
- Year
- 2025
- Specifications
- Publication grant, Mexican Secretaría de Cultura
First prize, unpublished works, Photo|Frome Photobook Awards 2025
Selected, Encontros da Imagem 2025, Feira do Livro de Fotografia de Lisboa and VAiF 2025
"Para ser como todos" (To be like everyone else) is a photobook that addresses a family story of loss, shame and recovery through a narrative that mixes archival images, original photographs, images made with artificial intelligence and texts narrated in three voices. The heart of the project is the story of Tita, the author's grandmother, and her mother Esther, her great-grandmother. Esther was the protagonist of a series of tragic events representative of her historical context; erased from the family narrative, as has happened to many other women throughout history. The key to the photobook is her absence not only in the family story but also in the visual narrative, since no photographs of her exist. Esther remains a mystery. The book focuses on how an untold or undocumented event can mark a family's history.