Crime fiction has long been part of both my reading life and my photographic practice. I am drawn to the genre not simply for its stories, but for the way it looks at the world—through shadows, tension, ambiguity, and the contradictions of human behavior. Photography and crime fiction share, for me, a fascination with looking closely: at people, at places, and at the details that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Since 2016, I have photographed crime fiction and noir writers in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, and elsewhere, often encountering them at festivals and gatherings devoted to the genre, including Córdoba Mata, events throughout Mexico, and Semana Negra de Gijón. The project has grown into an ongoing portrait archive of writers whose work continues to expand and reinvent the possibilities of noir.
In 2022, seventy of these portraits were exhibited at the Biblioteca Nacional Mariano Moreno in Buenos Aires as Rostros del crimen, accompanied by a published catalog. The project continues through new encounters with writers and with the visual language of the genre.
What began as a personal fascination with crime fiction has become an ongoing photographic exploration of the people, places, and stories that inhabit its darker corners.