I took these photos are my first trips back to Mexico during 2023-2024. I hadn't been back in a little over twenty years. A lot has happened since I was first there. I've developed more into the person that I will be, and my parents have to. We visited Estipac, Mexico, where they both grew up and met. They immigrated to the US illegally, so they weren't able to make the journey back for sometime.
This book is about those days, and even a little more. It's about my connection to Mexico, the conservation of my roots. I shot everything with the intention of expressing the beauty of the to everyone else who has left and couldn't come back.
"Ausente," means absent. Though we're absent, we were never truly gone.
