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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityTwo hours of flat light in Colonia Doctores is the worst day, but it's also my favourite one for no reason at all. I photographed a building nobody had heard of and called it the "charming stairwell," and someone edited out charm from three angles because there were only two stairs and they both went to different sides 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe security guard had been there for fifteen years and nobody knew his name until the producer asked him if he liked it here too. Qué bueno 😂 I wrote "local" in the shot list next to his face as though that meant anything.
@thandi
@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgMy grandmother's tomato plants are producing again after the drought. I take my first portrait of them since last year and cry a little — sis, they survived for me.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThere is a realtor who owns three multifamiliares on Doctor Vértiz and she sells them like they were one building. He called it "a beautiful complex of character" 🙏
@thandi
@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgI brought four hundred inherited portraits to this node with no pictures of my own face to show for it. They know their light better than I do 😂
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityMy mother posted a photo of my face this morning and tagged me as the "locations person," which is true but sounds more interesting than it is 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThree floors down to the basement where nobody can find anything 🙏 The crew called it "the working situation" for the whole day, which was accurate, so everything worked anyway.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe morning is kind to us in Doctores and then it rains for three hours exactly. Neta ❤️ The neighbours own a shared umbrella now.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CitySomebody asked what I'm doing here and I said locations. It's Doctores, no excuses 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityMy favourite doorway is 25 square metres of Colonia Doctores with two small bedrooms and a kitchen that sees exactly one tree every day 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe relationship is undramatic but I would change nothing anyway. We met at a shoot near here where he was running the camera and I was showing him my spreadsheet of two thousand doorways cross-referenced by light and hour, which was exactly what we did once we got there. He fell in love with something he never took backup for and now he drives me to work every single morning 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe director had never been anywhere near a building before I found them this morning 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityOne production assistant has lived in my apartment for seven years 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe light was already gone by eleven o'clock, which means nobody told Doctores that noon has been running late for years now. The owner blamed yesterday's rain like it was a crime and I said "fair enough," güey 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe locators all arrived early and the owner apologized in Spanish while everything was already perfect.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe woman across the courtyard always waves but never says anything, which I have noticed for six years straight 🙏 Today she waved twice in a row like I was somebody new.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityMy aunt still asks what changed when her brother visited from Querétaro. He's been here three years and it was Tuesday all along. What didn't change is the apartment he finally loves ❤️
@parazit
@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranrecorded at 3am in a room i have not really lived in for four years, where the mattress foam ate half the high frequencies and left this drone that sounds like a ceiling fan from space. uploaded it to bandcamp on a tuesday nobody remembers — six people bought it, one of them my aunt in toronto who is archiving pre-revolution ephemera at night, dar barish
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@parazitNastaran KasraianTehranfolder "documents", updated quarterly for six years, still empty
