In the early years of my career as a photographer, I earned my living working as a community activist and organizer for government platforms, especially the innovative Cosas de Pueblo where we use participatory photography, among other actions, to promote a sense of belonging and identity in rural areas of Uruguay. The ultimate goal was to strengthen the social network and prevent internal migration from villages to large cities.

This way of experiencing my practice with long-term processes, together with learning from my colleagues who are social workers, cultural managers, and anthropologists, and my own training as a popular educator, led me to implement the Liberation Pedagogy by Paulo Freire to carry out processes of social transformation in my visual projects with a Latin American decolonial perspective..

Another methodological pillar that I currently use is the Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal . Here, community fiction is conceived as a space for reinterpreting and reevaluating the current state of the world. It begins with a shared diagnosis of “reality” and then creates a new one, with the aim of bringing about change and thus transforming the starting point.

So, I set out to establish a method of visual narration for non-extractive photography, pursuing artivism (art + activism) as a practice, understanding that it is no longer enough to construct a visual narrative, also we must also be responsible for thinking about how the project will circulate and propose its activation at the place of origin , ethically addressing common problems in society.