Born: 1992, Mexico
Profession: Photographer and videographer
Lives and works: State of Mexico, Mexico
The project Lettergraphies: Chromatic of Resistance merges the concepts of “letter” and “cartography,” creating geographical and emotional landscapes inspired by a correspondence I established with an anarchist prisoner.
Driven by shared ideology and a desire for solidarity, our exchange bridged the gap between his daily life in an overcrowded prison and my experience navigating the urban outskirts of Mexico City. Both of us lived on the fringes of society: he, confined within walls, and I, moving through an ever-expanding landscape of asphalt, concrete, and forgotten peripheries. Despite our physical separation, our letters connected our worlds, revealing common threads in our shared realities—spaces molded by power structures yet continuously reshaped by those who inhabit them.
Using photographs intervened through the film soup technique, I reinterpreted the landscapes of confinement and the city’s sprawling outskirts, where boundaries blur between isolation and movement. By soaking film rolls in liquids that alter their emulsion, this experimental process transforms familiar environments into fluid, abstract terrains—where color and texture distort the rigid structures of urban space and captivity.
Each image is a metaphorical cartography, portraying how the built environment both limits and shapes those who inhabit it. Through this interplay of altered landscapes, connection, and shared narratives, the project reveals resilience and humanity, even in contexts of confinement and exclusion
