You left home never to return again (2018-2019)

'You left home never to return again' is the opening line from the text that Lidya wrote for this project about her daughter, who was brutally raped and murdered on the streets in the peripheral area of Mexico City. The written words and photographs are not enough to be able to express the pain and suffering that thousands of grieving mothers, daughters, and other relatives feel when a woman in their families is killed with no other reason than being a woman. Femicide is not uncommon in Mexico, the statistics suggest that 9 women are murdered every day, the complexity of the problem is so difficult to grasp as it involves almost all of the cultural, social, economic and political aspects of the country. Femicide is hardly addressed by the media, and it usually is focused on the scandalous details of the act itself, turning it into a sense of fiction which is so terrible that it's hard to believe as an actual fact. The intention of this project is to shine a light on the personal and human side of femicide by photographing objects that belonged to five victims, the spaces they inhabited and the people who surrounded them, and who are now fighting to obtain justice and emotional support from a corrupted and broken justice and political system which fails to deliver any sense of comfort or protection.