
La Luz También Viaja
- Publisher
- Matarile Ediciones
- Year
- 2022
- Specifications
- Zine
32 pages
5.5 x 8 in
First edition
Distributed by Dashwood Books
Light Also Travels brings together a selection of photographs from an ongoing body of work made in Puerto Rico and the Northeast US. Genesis Báez was born in Massachusetts to Puerto Rican parents who had migrated there in the 1980s. She photographs landscapes, constructs still lifes and enacts gestures with women from her family or with women who remind her of them, to trace the invisible threads that connect people and places otherwise separated by time and distance: the light that carves a portal in Massachusetts is the same light bouncing off a mirror shard in Puerto Rico. The images reflect on how people relate to place, history, imagination and community in the dispersion of diasporic life, and on how belonging may be conjured from fragments.