The Worlds We Live In (2014)

The Worlds We Live In (2014) is a year-long photojournalistic project that draws from my experience in Tanzania, India, New Zealand, Mexico, Guatemala, Italy, and Cambodia in 2013-14. Then, having a camera in my hand compelled me to think of the notion of “a world in which several worlds exist,” to borrow the words of the Zapatista fighters in Mexico, where interconnection defines the relationship between supposedly faraway lands. 

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Indeed, so often when traveling to distant places, people take pictures of the things that are strange, exciting, colorful, and essentially different. However, such an approach to photography and representation of the other can also mislead us to believe that the worlds in which these “strangers” live are exotic, ones that are separate from our own.

This collection of photographs hence aims to present an alternative viewpoint of the worlds we live in: the ones that are connected, similar, beautiful, and evolving every day. These worlds are places in which human beings, including us, persevere in the face of life's complexities, yet seldom without dignity and compassion.