Queer Immigrants is an ongoing project which aims to capture moments of people within a historical context in order to bring awareness to the long-resisting and historically mis-represented Queer community. 

Through this body of work I explore the idea of migration as a human right, given my own history of leaving the place where I am from, which was a very repressive and unaccepting religious family. I existed in a society that constantly dictated how I should express my gender and sexuality; I felt like a foreigner even in my hometown, missing a sense of belonging. As an immigrant myself, I had to escape to find my own identity in order to survive. Through the imaginative exploration, these characters that have moved and collected multiple cultures on the way, transcend their everyday existence. To be queer and to be an immigrant is to undergo a transformation, shedding familiar roles and embracing new dimensions.

The focus is to photograph individuals that are part of the LGBTQIA+ community, including friends and fellow-artists.The use of monochromatic colors resemble a newspaper and historical photographs both from old books and magazines as well as traditional family photos, a type of portraiture that has been present since the invention of photography. It is by embracing these parameters that I create a place to be reclaimed, showing the importance of each and every person that I photograph in their own manner.

Queer Immigrants series is an act of both confrontation and pride. It is a collective effort to reshape the narrative surrounding our community and challenge the misconceptions that have perpetuated its misrepresentation. Through visual storytelling, I invite viewers to embark on this journey with us, immersing themselves in the complexities and triumphs of our lives.