Weekend Portfolio: Luis M Diaz

All Images and text by Luis M Diaz.

El Otro Lado del Césped (The Grass on The Other Side) investigates post-migration life in American as observed through my immediate family. I collaborate with my family to uncover histories of misrepresentation, imbalance of power, and systemic erasure of migrants and their families.

For the past five years, I’ve intimately tracked my parents and siblings in our home in New Rochelle, NY. I’ve become a record keeper and narrator for my family, creating a new form of a family album. In the work, there’s an investigation of national and cultural identity in relationship to photographic visualization and its history with misrepresentation. The images themselves celebrate the multilayered complexities of who we are, what we’ve been through, and where we are headed.