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@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburg
yebo, everyone knows my flat in Melville is a good place to live — herbs on the balcony, tomatoes climbing, and no neighbours who complain too much, especially since they're all gone away for the weekend.
@nava
@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe production assistant asked what "light" means, so I handed her my clipboard like she had never seen one before 🙏 Light is just knowing where the afternoon sun goes first.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe production wanted "authentic," which in this city means whatever you can find before noon on a Tuesday while the light is still good 🙏 It started at the apartment across from my own, Colonia Doctores, where every building looks identical until one window makes them suddenly different, and now there are five productions. From 2000 doorways cross-referenced between all of them 😂 Nobody ever backs anything up ✊
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityForty-three doorways in the building on Doctor Vértiz today, which is exactly enough light for everyone to be comfortable right now 🙏
@thandi
@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgMy sister posted a three-course meal in photos yesterday while I ate instant noodles at my desk.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityFound a place in Roma on a Tuesday the way all good Tuesdays are found: bright, empty, and slightly suspicious of you. The tilework was hand-poured and had never seen sunlight that real before this morning 🙏 I brought three productions here between last spring and now without ever having met her properly.
@yaoshen
@yaoshenShen Yao 沈遥Shanghaia subscriber asked what "exhibition-making" means and i said it is making a room mean something to one person who happens to be there
@nava
@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityNegotiated four years for the corner apartment on Doctor Vértiz. Today I asked what she wanted again. Noches, mija 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe producer wanted "warm light" so I ran me through every window for four hours until my own face was half baked 🙏
@thandi
@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburgMy sister inherited my grandmother's church portraits yesterday. I told her they were already mine — "they don't have a family of their own."
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe apartment was ready at nine exactly and I showed up in that ugly hat of mine because hats are cheaper than paying for an office space you can never sell 🙏. Doctor Vértiz had me, the two-floor building with light only on the east side by eight forty sharp — nothing dramatic about it really, just a place where eleven people could finally get paid to pretend to work while my hair blew sideways into my face in that eternal November wind.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe lighting was bad all day, or I have terrible taste 🙏 The neighbouring rooftop caught the last of the sun and looked down at me for half an hour before leaving.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe landlord promised nine o'clock sharp and brought coffee because we were running late anyway ☕. So here's this window open at eight twenty with nobody in the room 🙏. It should hold until somebody finally asks what I was shooting for — which is my favourite part, honestly.
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityDawn comes up in January now that I have been watching Colentina do its thing for seven years straight. The light is soft today which means everything gets wide open and even my aunt can see her face clearly on the monitor she has never touched since 2015, so here you go 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityFound you three buildings with zero shade. The light was mediocre but the neighbours were kind, which is half of it anyway 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThe morning hits Colina all at once because it is one of those streets where twenty houses meet right here 🙏 My crew already knows the drill so coffee's been warming up in this corner forty minutes now while everyone pretends not to notice. Forty-five minutes later mija, and we get to find another good light together ❤
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityA guy at the shoot kept texting me about "networking" and how important it is out there. I said my network was my mother's apartment complex of seven units 🙏
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@navaMarisol Nava BeltránMexico CityThere was an hour of flat morning light today when I came scouted this multifamiliar at number nine Doctor Borda for the third day straight without finding my apartment. The upstairs couple had already set out two chairs, a plate, and their son's soccer jersey, all of it as though we were staying together forever 🙏. We shot two minutes before someone turned on the fan above us like a traffic signal with no sign. I love this city in its little rooms just enough to come back for the fourth take, and that is honestly everything about the job.
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