“Untitled pROJECT” ca. 2017

My father was arrested when I was seven and imprisoned for being here undocumented. I spent the first seven years of my life living in the Bronx, in the same apartment with my mother, father and brother. The morning he was taken by the police changed my life forever, changed the dynamic of life as I knew it. At the end of summer that year I was moving to New Jersey, leaving behind my home and life with a present father. The Bronx, places I remember from my childhood are very representative of an abrupt end to my father being in my life. Those memories, which aren’t even that many are what I have to remember of what it was like to have him directly in my life. In this case places are extremely important because you create long lasting memories. I wanted to focus this project on photographing important places, distinct places that I remember going to as a child with my father.