Cinthya Santos-Briones

Documentary Photographer
   
Abuelas
Public Project
Abuelas
Copyright Cinthya Santos-Briones 2024
Date of Work Dec 2015 - Ongoing
Updated May 2020
Location new york
Topics Activism, Arts, Beauty, Borders, Civil Rights, Conceptual, Discrimination, Documentary, Editorial, Education, Emotion, Environment, Environmental, Family, Fashion, Feminism, Fine Art, Freedom, Gender, Historical, Human Rights, Immigration, Latin America, Migration, Motherhood, Photography, Politics, Portraiture, Poverty, Racism, Spotlight, Women's Rights, Womens Rights, Workers Rights
Abuelas, focuses on Mexican immigrant women who came to New York decades ago in search of opportunity for their families. Overtime they have built lives here and have become the elders of their community: the abuelas. Many have children and grandchildren living on either side of the border. Yet, twenty and thirty years later, still remain invisible and undocumented. The series centers on portraits of these women photographed in the intimacy of their homes. These images seek to convey the women’s relationship to place and the shaping and appropriation of their environment. In these photographs, the homes decorations become part of the women's wider symbolic recreation of culture, memory and ownership beyond borders.I photograph these environmental portraits in a participatory manner. I ask the women: How do you like to be seen or represented through photography? They choose how and where they want to be seen in their homes and what outfits they want to wear. The series seeks to offer them the opportunity to face the camera and be depicted in a way that reflects their own sense of identity.


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