Mariceu Erthal García
Women Photograph
Santiago de Querétaro, Qro., Mexico
Mexican photografer who explores between the documentary and fine art line, as a bridge and tool to reflect on the journey, the territory, humanitarian problems, migration, violence, daily life, and how them converge with the historical and cultural context.
Currently World Press Photo 6x6 Global Talent for North / Central America and nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclasss 2019.
Letters to Gemma
Mariceu Erthal García
After wearing Gemma’s dress, with the first feelings I experienced, I wrote this letter to her:
Today I walked through your door, which remains open waiting for you to enter, smiling, as if just any little thing had happened, a delay in the bus, a meeting with a friend, or as if you had just lost track of time reading a book as you liked to do. As if these 7 years had not rotted the walls and turned off all the lights of the house. But today, only I arrive.
You were my age when dreams destroyed you, and since I heard your story I am afraid that someone will turn off mine, if I disappear today, when they hear your story they would read mine, because I inhabited your spaces, I felt you in mine, I embraced the tired gaze of your parents and I cry your uninterrupted story.
Your absence will always breathe painfully in these spaces, and I, without knowing you, do not cease to feel you.
Garden flower
Mariceu Erthal García
Nature in Veracruz, Mexico, overflows, settles in its gardens and avenues, the pain too. Veracruz is a place that accumulates missing people and violence, one of the most cultural beautiful and violent Mexican states. I took this photo in Gemma's garden which even with her absence and abandonment by her family, does not stop blooming.