DIFFERENT ONES (2017-2020)

A project in collaboration with Lilián Domínguez

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We have only one world, but each of us lives in a different one.

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For four years, my wife Lilián Domínguez and I traveled through cities in Europe and the Americas with the same idea: to walk through the same place, at the same moment, and let each of us photograph whatever we were seeing. Me in color, her in black and white. Without agreeing on where to look, without sharing the frame. Later, at home, we would put the images together in pairs.

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What appeared in those diptychs was not what we had expected. Where I had seen saturation, she had seen a gesture. Where I had been looking for geometry, she had found intimacy — the small detail, the hand barely peeking out, the face passing by. Lilián looks at the world from a quieter, more inward place; her black-and-white images breathe with a different cadence. And once placed beside hers, my colors became something else too.

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Different Ones is the result of that shared way of looking. It is not a series of images that confirm one another: it is a series of images that complement one another, sometimes contradict one another, and almost always enrich one another. The same street, the same instant, two ways of being there.

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We were together. But each of us had been in a world of our own. And by bringing the two worlds together, we discovered a third — the one that appears when two ways of looking, instead of competing, accompany each other.

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Photographic project, completed. Made between 2017 and 2020 in various cities of Europe and the Americas. In collaboration with Lilián Domínguez.