La De Jose Reyes Martinez
Sourced from two distinct familial archives—my maternal grandmother’s and my maternal grandfather’s—these photographs existed in quiet opposition for decades. Their divorce in the 1970s fractured not only their relationship but the visual narrative of our family. What remained were partial histories: my mother, aunt, and uncle suspended in my grandfather’s frame; my grandmother isolated in her own.
Through digital intervention, I staged a reconciliation. By reuniting these images, I attempt to collapse distance—temporal, emotional, archival. This composite becomes not just a portrait, but a gesture toward repair: a bridging of memory, a reconstitution of what was divided, an insistence that both perspectives belong in the telling.
Guadalupe's Half
Herminia’s Half
Herminia, Mireya, Magdalena, Jose Antonio, y Vecinos
Jose Guadalupe De La Riva
approximately 1968