LIDY AGUILA
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Lidy Aguila Martinez is an educator and photographer born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Passionate about photography, archives and research, her work explores the essence of uncertainty and adaptation. She is interested in stories around strangers, relatives and their memories. She has been featured in recent exhibitions at the Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art and has published in Nighted Life, Five Nine and Peach Magazine. Lidy lives and works in Brooklyn, New York City. She is part of the photography collective Retina Latinoamérica.
When and where did you start photographing?
LA: Puerto Rico, 2009
Who has been the reference of your photography?
LA:The Arts in general, from performing arts to drawing —which I practiced during my childhood—to cinematography. The visual diversity of my country has been a reference to document with a camera the things around me.
What do you want to communicate through your photographs?
LA: The trace of time in the spaces we live in, moments from the ordinary, my own memories and memories from people that surround me.
What does street and documentary photography mean to you?
LA: An escape and refuge, a comfortable place.
How are your life experiences reflected in the subjects we see in your photographs?
LA: Nostalgia more than anything is the strongest symbolism in my photography, my experience of migrating and being away from home has become a fundamental part of my photographic process discourse.
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