what's your homeland
when you have no roots?
you take bits and pieces
from the places you've lived in
- as well as from your memories -
and try to make them work together
that's where I was born
and this is what we considered our "paradise"
88 km from my front door
it has been our shelter many times
when we needed to escape the boredom
of our anonymous provincial town
photographing the place I come from
has not been easy at all

I thought it would, but it wasn't
many unexpected things came up

memories on top of everything
good and bad
exploring that piece of land
has also been a way to know
a bit of myself that i had never
taken into consideration
what came out is the result of
nine years of shooting

from the first experiments to the last years,
when I intensified my presence in the area,
looking for a twist, which would have given
that universality I was looking for
photography weighs

it has a physicality that we often forget
the translation of a project into a book
is something special

from a solitary act,
photography transforms itself
and becomes a collaborative act
making books is something absolutely
outstanding, especially in the moment
when they become physical objects
"going home is not necessarily
a wonderful experience"

G.W Sebald