NO PLACE IS FAR AWAY

(2022 - ongoing)

“The homeland is not a place or a flag, the homeland is a feeling. And I try not to remember, but every time I wake up I remember”
Rony

This project focuses on documenting a part of Cuba that is uprooted, exiled, and marginalized in the United States—through people, objects, and shared spaces that define exile. The objects, their faces, their gestures, their movements, their expressions, and their surroundings represent what they lost, what they left behind, what they forgot, what pains them, what unites and separates them, and what, under no circumstances, they could ever forget. It consists of a series of analog and digital photographs captured in the present moment of these people, objects, or spaces—within their real environment, in their routine, and spontaneously. What interests me is capturing the sense of memory, which I believe is one of the central pillars for any individual to survive exile.