From my single photo album archive: photo of my mother, in her bedroom. 1998.
I look at this photo trying to understand her.
The version of her here feels distant from the person I know now.
Still, there’s something tender in it.
And something tired, too.
I don’t know who she was here yet.
But I love this photograph because it reminds me that
she had entire worlds,
feelings,
experiences,
and years,
before I could even understand them.
A version of her I never knew.
Still beautiful to me.
Happy Birthday mami.
My grandparents in their home in Esperanza.
I haven’t been here with them since I was eight years old.
The backyard used to feel enormous.
So full of life.
Fruit trees. Limones en el suelo. Plants. Grass everywhere.
A whole world contained behind the house.
Now I see how small it really was.
But the world feels bigger when you’re young.
Everything feels bigger when it’s new.
The backyard is the same, but it isn’t.
Everything stays where you left it, yet it still changes,
slowly, quietly, in little ways.
Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200
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On Saturday, May 30th from 12-2PM join us to learn more about local photographer Mav Fernandez whose prints are currently on display in the Park Plaza Corridor. Fernandez’ series Between Them explores sibling relationships and the bonds, shared spaces, and complex social rituals that bind family together.
Mav Fernandez @mavvro is a Dominican photographer whose artistic practice centers on photography as a means of reflection, connection, and understanding. Mav is interested in how images can hold emotional truth, and how they help us see ourselves and others more clearly.
More information and a link to register can be found in our bio.
A walk around the block.
Esperanza, República Dominicana. 2026.
Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200.
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Did you know we have a small exhibition space in the Park Plaza Hotel? On view now are seven prints from local photographer Mav Fernandez’ series Between Them which explores sibling relationships and the bonds, shared spaces, and complex social rituals that bind family together.
On Saturday, May 30th from 12-2PM join us to see this work and to learn more about Mav and his practice multi-layered and sensitive approach to photography.
Mav Fernandez @mavvro is a Dominican photographer whose artistic practice centers on photography as a means of reflection, connection, and understanding. Mav is interested in how images can hold emotional truth, and how they help us see ourselves and others more clearly.
Across all of his work, his practice is guided by understanding, care, and preservation. Whether he’s photographing family, community, or himself, his work is always an act of love. A way of preserving the people and moments that shape our shared humanity.
@leicastoreboston@leicacamerausa
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The kind of drive where the light stays longer than expected and your thoughts get louder than the road.
Taos, New Mexico. 2025.
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Polaroid of my mother, my aunt, and myself, the day my Aunt arrived to America. December, 1996. @polaroid
Thinking a lot about legacy.
About family.
What we build for ourselves and what we then leave behind for them.
For me.
I’m thinking a lot about our decisions and how sometimes we feel the repercussion immediately. And other times we feel them 30 years later.
I’m thinking about time, and how it passes.
Or maybe how we give it away.
I don’t remember this image, but it still belongs to me. This is part of my history that exists without my consent,
without my memory,
but not without impact.
Photography was a part of my life long before I knew it.
I didn’t know this was a moment.
I didn’t know I were being held
in a way that would one day matter.
I didn’t know I’d end up with this Polaroid in my possession.
But now I am the only one
who can hold both; the feeling
and the proof.
Our time should be spent making memories.
How lucky we are to have things to lose.
And how privileged we are to choose to make more of them.
I’m thinking about everything that never became a memory.
I wish I had more to lose.
A walk around the block.
One of the first silver gelatin prints I made this year. Looking forward to spending more time in the darkroom.
Leica M6 + @ilfordphoto HP5
Dev by @phtsdr
Hand print by me.
Self portrait, on the back of a Grab.
Dev + Scan @phtsdr
Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor200
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