Downtown Memories

These photographs were taken in neighborhoods that are rarely named — peripheral, often forgotten areas that today, paradoxically, are becoming increasingly central and representative of contemporary urban life.
The series is rooted in an immersive approach: I placed myself in the perspective of an adolescent growing up in these environments, for whom this space becomes an everyday reality — a landscape intimately bound to memory, where walls absorb emotions, gestures, and fragments of lived experience.
Through these images, I sought to reveal a form of beauty and poetry in places where they are not immediately perceived. The blur and visual ambiguity become essential elements of the work, echoing the nature of memory itself — unstable, fragmented, reduced to traces, flashes of light, and residual emotions.
A personal note on the title: I initially considered Memory of a City, and could just as well have called it Mirror of My Childhood. This latter idea refers to the car windshield through which these photographs were taken — a physical filter that transforms vision into something unstable and dreamlike. Like memory itself, it separates remembrance from forgetting, the conscious from the unconscious.
In this way, the series becomes a mirror-like space where childhood resurfaces, bringing back forgotten sensations and suspended emotions.