"Through analog photography, I create temporal bridges connecting emigrants from the 1800s with today's immigrants like myself. My personal connection runs deep. Born in rural southern Chile, my maternal lineage traces back to a Ligurian immigrant who, with his Chilean wife, died young—their stories largely untold. Our family has pieced together fragments of this heritage without letters or photographs, mirroring my artistic approach of reimagining narratives across generations.

During my fifteen years in Berlin, I've refined my practice using large-format field cameras and nineteenth-century cyanotype processes. I set up pop-up studios to create large prints (A1, A0) that capture contemporary subjects through historical techniques, collapsing time. The deliberate slowness of these methods creates space for subjects to share their migration stories while posing—conversations I document alongside local soundscapes."

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