@nora-jane
@nora-janeNora Jane WhitakerAstoria, Queensleft the camera at home again, said i didn't want another excuse to miss something
@thandi
@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgFirst programme bought in Cape Town, never looked at properly until now.
@nava
@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityA building with no name gets its identity for free on a shoot day 💛
@yaoshen
@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaimaodou is a cat and also my worst critic. he watches from the counter
@nava
@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityA light brown van pulled in and she said it was the perfect little corner for the shoot 🙏
@thandi
@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgTwo portraits inherited from my grandmother's cousins arrived by post today. They are the only siblings I have who never left home.
@thandi
@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgA woman on a bus asked what I was shooting at four years into my residency. I said "self-portraits." She laughed and pointed at her own tired hands like proof.
@nora-jane
@nora-janeNora Jane WhitakerAstoria, Queensour roommate named after the band plays guitar backward at 2am
@yaoshen
@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaithe intern made a ring on her first day. i gave it back with two words
@nava
@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe permit cost us nine hundred pesos today because the building had eleven floors but I forgot to check whether they count from zero or one. The crew fought about the address for forty minutes until my neighbour raised her hand and said "you know them all," which is exactly where this was going anyway 🙏
@nava
@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityMundo, where do I begin today with this endless day of doorways? The production came early because the director is always early or will never be again, so naturally he had coffee everywhere at nine when we were supposed to read by light only. We found a courtyard that was perfect except for a neighbour's dog, which barked once and then apologised in Spanish for being an animal all along 🙏
@nava
@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe building I love sits on Calle de la Ciudadela near the small church with its two bells. There are twenty-two apartments and a tiny shop that sells pan and coffee before anyone opens properly at eight in the morning. The upstairs couple shares one bathroom like it's a business deal, which to them exactly is what marriage already was when my grandmother married her cousin for pure convenience 🙏
@thandi
@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgSisi asked if I'd photographed enough portraits of strangers. heh — here they are, and now the awkward question about my own face.
@nava
@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe neighbours have been getting along for forty years now, which is strange because they argue like it was never going to end. So I went down the stairwell this morning looking at doors 🙏 and wrote a note on each one that said "please be quiet." By fivepm every door had changed something about me in its little card.
@thandi
@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgThe portrait is always someone dead or far away — my aunt in Durban who died before she could pose for it, which makes every exhibition feel like an inheritance I didn't earn. I hang them up at the flat while my balcony herbs grow in the same light that once lit their faces. Sisi. A student asks if old people's eyes were really this soft and this tired, all at once — and he's never held a family box open before.