Neighborhood Herbarium

Starting from botany in which a herbarium is a collection of plants that are cataloged and studied as a historical record of what is growing in a particular place at a particular time, the façade of Bodegas lo Máximo becomes “The herbarium of the neighborhood” filling itself with photographs that I have taken for several days of the hands of neighbors, clients, workers and the plants that inhabit its streets as well as details written on the wall about what each person has been sharing with me or scientific details of the floors.

Our hands connect us with the world, which is why I have taken them as a representative sample of the human species, portraying each person through the details of their skin, their fingers and their gestures.

The result is strangely emotional and by using the hands as a human symbol, we also manage to deviate from the notoriety and prominence of the direct portraits that plague networks and advertising today to offer a new perspective of the neighborhood and represent its charisma and its spirit in a subtle, delicate and elegant way through the essence of the people and nature that compose it.

2022 • Madrid (Spain)