VORÁGINE by Orlando De La Rosa
VORÁGINE by Orlando De La Rosa
Through images and texts Diego Moreno narrates the complexity of his family history, one that is marked by disturbing cycles of domestic violence, machismo and attachment to the Catholic religion. This photobook, as a family album, allows the author to build a present to find his place in the world and reflect more deeply on the fragility and complexity of the human condition, and the hostile time in which we live.
Huésped has been developed over the past six years, during which Diego has explored his own identity through an intense immersion process into photography as a means to bond with his family, creating and recreating scenes that allow us to enter into this complex web of relationships, while they are transformed in the same photographic act.
Since the times of the Spanish Conquest, Chiapas has been a state of Mexico where diverse cultures coexist, where cultural and social contrasts remain in constant tension. Mexico's border with Latin America, the passage of undocumented immigrants, the scene of the Zapatista struggle, a place inhabited by indigenous peoples who keep alive the preshispanic customs, the so-called "coletos" descendants of Spaniards, mestizos and foreigners, build an extremely complex social mosaic.