“Acquainted with solitude” reflects on the process of self-recognition and meditation that one goes through during migration due to being alone so much time. To be inserted into a society that goes so fast around you while not having the inner circle relationships you left behind can make you feel like a stranger that can’t see who is around, but it can also bring us to a place of self-awareness that helps understand ourselves.
Moving to a new country, a new culture and language, the camera has become a medium for documenting this new life, the places that start to feel like a home, and a lot less of the people that surround me. When I do, it is always a shadow, or a silhouette, or a reflection, but mostly, something unrecognizable. This absence of identities does not mean absence of the people, but there is solitude in being a person in a new city so far and different from home.
