The COVID-19 pandemic brought my travels and traditional portrait projects to a sudden halt. Confined to my home in Southern California, I began searching for alternative ways to capture my subjects. I found my answer in André Kertész’s The Polaroids—a collection created entirely within the boundaries of his New York apartment using a then-new Polaroid SX-70.
Inspired by Kertész’s window, I opened my own digital window to the world. I connected with writers globally via video platforms, projecting their live images onto physical materials like foam core, vinyl, metal, canvas, glass, wood, and cloth. By photographing these projections on a tripod, I captured a textured, distorted, and pixelated aesthetic that reflects our fragmented collective reality.
Postales del confinamiento, published by the University of Guadalajara Press, brings together 96 of these remote portraits. Each image is paired with a contribution from the writer—whether poetic, testimonial, or fictional—creating a profound global time capsule of a world in isolation.