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Mamá, enseñándome su blusa favorita.

My grandmother showing me her favorite jacket, and telling me why it means so much to her.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about heritage, and inheritance. About fabric, and the way it carries history.
Especially for black and brownpeople.
Especially for Taínos.

I think about hands.
About labor.
About the generations of people who made things for survival,
for ceremony,
for love.
I think about cloth as memory.
As something that holds the shape of a body long after it’s been worn.

Sometimes care looks like feeding someone.
Sometimes it looks like keeping something safe for years. Sometimes it looks like a favorite jacket,
carefully folded,
waiting to be shown to someone you love.

Esperanza, Repulica Dominicana. 2026

#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #35mm

Mamá, enseñándome su blusa favorita.

My grandmother showing me her favorite jacket, and telling me why it means so much to her.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about heritage, and inheritance. About fabric, and the way it carries history.
Especially for black and brownpeople.
Especially for Taínos.

I think about hands.
About labor.
About the generations of people who made things for survival,
for ceremony,
for love.
I think about cloth as memory.
As something that holds the shape of a body long after it’s been worn.

Sometimes care looks like feeding someone.
Sometimes it looks like keeping something safe for years. Sometimes it looks like a favorite jacket,
carefully folded,
waiting to be shown to someone you love.

Esperanza, Repulica Dominicana. 2026

#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #35mm

Mamá, enseñándome su blusa favorita.

My grandmother showing me her favorite jacket, and telling me why it means so much to her.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about heritage, and inheritance. About fabric, and the way it carries history.
Especially for black and brownpeople.
Especially for Taínos.

I think about hands.
About labor.
About the generations of people who made things for survival,
for ceremony,
for love.
I think about cloth as memory.
As something that holds the shape of a body long after it’s been worn.

Sometimes care looks like feeding someone.
Sometimes it looks like keeping something safe for years. Sometimes it looks like a favorite jacket,
carefully folded,
waiting to be shown to someone you love.

Esperanza, Repulica Dominicana. 2026

#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #35mm

Mamá, enseñándome su blusa favorita.

My grandmother showing me her favorite jacket, and telling me why it means so much to her.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about heritage, and inheritance. About fabric, and the way it carries history.
Especially for black and brownpeople.
Especially for Taínos.

I think about hands.
About labor.
About the generations of people who made things for survival,
for ceremony,
for love.
I think about cloth as memory.
As something that holds the shape of a body long after it’s been worn.

Sometimes care looks like feeding someone.
Sometimes it looks like keeping something safe for years. Sometimes it looks like a favorite jacket,
carefully folded,
waiting to be shown to someone you love.

Esperanza, Repulica Dominicana. 2026

#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #35mm

Mamá, enseñándome su blusa favorita.

My grandmother showing me her favorite jacket, and telling me why it means so much to her.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about heritage, and inheritance. About fabric, and the way it carries history.
Especially for black and brownpeople.
Especially for Taínos.

I think about hands.
About labor.
About the generations of people who made things for survival,
for ceremony,
for love.
I think about cloth as memory.
As something that holds the shape of a body long after it’s been worn.

Sometimes care looks like feeding someone.
Sometimes it looks like keeping something safe for years. Sometimes it looks like a favorite jacket,
carefully folded,
waiting to be shown to someone you love.

Esperanza, Repulica Dominicana. 2026

#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #35mm

Gerardo, el zapatero de Esperanza.

Gerardo is the town cobbler, and good friend of my grandfather.

Esperanza, República Dominicana. 2026.
#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #35mm #madewithkodak #kodacolor200

Gerardo, el zapatero de Esperanza.

Gerardo is the town cobbler, and good friend of my grandfather.

Esperanza, República Dominicana. 2026.
#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #35mm #madewithkodak #kodacolor200

Gerardo, el zapatero de Esperanza.

Gerardo is the town cobbler, and good friend of my grandfather.

Esperanza, República Dominicana. 2026.
#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #35mm #madewithkodak #kodacolor200

Gerardo, el zapatero de Esperanza.

Gerardo is the town cobbler, and good friend of my grandfather.

Esperanza, República Dominicana. 2026.
#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #35mm #madewithkodak #kodacolor200

30.

This year I found myself listening differently.
Listening longer.
Staying longer, and feeling more.
Letting moments be what they are before turning them into something else.

This year I paid more attention than I used to.
I paid attention to the things that were moving slower than I was.
To the things that don’t reveal themselves quickly.
To what stays after I’ve already moved on.

I learned that attention is a form of care, and care is a discipline.
Care takes effort.
Care takes time.

I traveled, I returned, I repeated.
I saw how easily time can feel linear when you are moving fast, and how quickly it becomes circular when you slow down enough to notice what you are repeating, what you are still trying to resolve.

I also traveled more seriously with my work.
I sat in rooms where I had to say what I was doing with more certainty than I felt.
I applied, I was reviewed, I was seen.
I kept showing up for myself,
and for the work.

I welcomed new life into mine, and made space for it.
So much new life entering the same world I’m still trying to understand.
It made everything feel more immediate.
More fragile.
More worth paying attention to.
And It changed something in me.
It made everything quieter and louder at the same time.

This year I wasn’t trying to resolve anything.
I think I was just trying to stay close enough to everything I was feeling.

I don’t feel finished with anything.
And that’s okay.
But I feel closer to the center of whatever I’ve been circling for some time now.

I’m still learning how to see.
Still learning how to stay with what I see once it’s no longer in front of me.

And still learning that paying attention is the work.

Thank you to those that read this far.

Self portrait, enjoying a smoke at 7am.
Taos, New Mexico. 2025.

#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #hp5plus

30.

This year I found myself listening differently.
Listening longer.
Staying longer, and feeling more.
Letting moments be what they are before turning them into something else.

This year I paid more attention than I used to.
I paid attention to the things that were moving slower than I was.
To the things that don’t reveal themselves quickly.
To what stays after I’ve already moved on.

I learned that attention is a form of care, and care is a discipline.
Care takes effort.
Care takes time.

I traveled, I returned, I repeated.
I saw how easily time can feel linear when you are moving fast, and how quickly it becomes circular when you slow down enough to notice what you are repeating, what you are still trying to resolve.

I also traveled more seriously with my work.
I sat in rooms where I had to say what I was doing with more certainty than I felt.
I applied, I was reviewed, I was seen.
I kept showing up for myself,
and for the work.

I welcomed new life into mine, and made space for it.
So much new life entering the same world I’m still trying to understand.
It made everything feel more immediate.
More fragile.
More worth paying attention to.
And It changed something in me.
It made everything quieter and louder at the same time.

This year I wasn’t trying to resolve anything.
I think I was just trying to stay close enough to everything I was feeling.

I don’t feel finished with anything.
And that’s okay.
But I feel closer to the center of whatever I’ve been circling for some time now.

I’m still learning how to see.
Still learning how to stay with what I see once it’s no longer in front of me.

And still learning that paying attention is the work.

Thank you to those that read this far.

Self portrait, enjoying a smoke at 7am.
Taos, New Mexico. 2025.

#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #hp5plus

Last self portrait of my 20’s.

#madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #leicam4 #myleicaphoto #chasingleitz

Last self portrait of my 20’s.

#madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #leicam4 #myleicaphoto #chasingleitz

From my single photo album archive: photo of my mother, in her bedroom. 1998.

I look at this photo trying to understand her.
The version of her here feels distant from the person I know now.
Still, there’s something tender in it.
And something tired, too.
I don’t know who she was here yet.
But I love this photograph because it reminds me that
she had entire worlds,
feelings,
experiences,
and years,
before I could even understand them.

A version of her I never knew.
Still beautiful to me.

Happy Birthday mami.

My grandparents in their home in Esperanza.

I haven’t been here with them since I was eight years old.
The backyard used to feel enormous.
So full of life.
Fruit trees. Limones en el suelo. Plants. Grass everywhere.
A whole world contained behind the house.

Now I see how small it really was.
But the world feels bigger when you’re young.
Everything feels bigger when it’s new.

The backyard is the same, but it isn’t.
Everything stays where you left it, yet it still changes,
slowly, quietly, in little ways.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200
#leicam6 #madewithkodak #chasingleitz #myleicaphoto #kodacolor200

My grandparents in their home in Esperanza.

I haven’t been here with them since I was eight years old.
The backyard used to feel enormous.
So full of life.
Fruit trees. Limones en el suelo. Plants. Grass everywhere.
A whole world contained behind the house.

Now I see how small it really was.
But the world feels bigger when you’re young.
Everything feels bigger when it’s new.

The backyard is the same, but it isn’t.
Everything stays where you left it, yet it still changes,
slowly, quietly, in little ways.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200
#leicam6 #madewithkodak #chasingleitz #myleicaphoto #kodacolor200

My grandparents in their home in Esperanza.

I haven’t been here with them since I was eight years old.
The backyard used to feel enormous.
So full of life.
Fruit trees. Limones en el suelo. Plants. Grass everywhere.
A whole world contained behind the house.

Now I see how small it really was.
But the world feels bigger when you’re young.
Everything feels bigger when it’s new.

The backyard is the same, but it isn’t.
Everything stays where you left it, yet it still changes,
slowly, quietly, in little ways.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200
#leicam6 #madewithkodak #chasingleitz #myleicaphoto #kodacolor200

My grandparents in their home in Esperanza.

I haven’t been here with them since I was eight years old.
The backyard used to feel enormous.
So full of life.
Fruit trees. Limones en el suelo. Plants. Grass everywhere.
A whole world contained behind the house.

Now I see how small it really was.
But the world feels bigger when you’re young.
Everything feels bigger when it’s new.

The backyard is the same, but it isn’t.
Everything stays where you left it, yet it still changes,
slowly, quietly, in little ways.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200
#leicam6 #madewithkodak #chasingleitz #myleicaphoto #kodacolor200

My grandparents in their home in Esperanza.

I haven’t been here with them since I was eight years old.
The backyard used to feel enormous.
So full of life.
Fruit trees. Limones en el suelo. Plants. Grass everywhere.
A whole world contained behind the house.

Now I see how small it really was.
But the world feels bigger when you’re young.
Everything feels bigger when it’s new.

The backyard is the same, but it isn’t.
Everything stays where you left it, yet it still changes,
slowly, quietly, in little ways.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200
#leicam6 #madewithkodak #chasingleitz #myleicaphoto #kodacolor200

My grandparents in their home in Esperanza.

I haven’t been here with them since I was eight years old.
The backyard used to feel enormous.
So full of life.
Fruit trees. Limones en el suelo. Plants. Grass everywhere.
A whole world contained behind the house.

Now I see how small it really was.
But the world feels bigger when you’re young.
Everything feels bigger when it’s new.

The backyard is the same, but it isn’t.
Everything stays where you left it, yet it still changes,
slowly, quietly, in little ways.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200
#leicam6 #madewithkodak #chasingleitz #myleicaphoto #kodacolor200

On Saturday, May 30th from 12-2PM join us to learn more about local photographer Mav Fernandez whose prints are currently on display in the Park Plaza Corridor. Fernandez’ series Between Them explores sibling relationships and the bonds, shared spaces, and complex social rituals that bind family together.

Mav Fernandez @mavvro is a Dominican photographer whose artistic practice centers on photography as a means of reflection, connection, and understanding. Mav is interested in how images can hold emotional truth, and how they help us see ourselves and others more clearly. 

More information and a link to register can be found in our bio.

A walk around the block.
Esperanza, República Dominicana. 2026.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200.
#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #35mm

A walk around the block.
Esperanza, República Dominicana. 2026.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200.
#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #35mm

A walk around the block.
Esperanza, República Dominicana. 2026.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200.
#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #35mm

A walk around the block.
Esperanza, República Dominicana. 2026.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200.
#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #35mm

A walk around the block.
Esperanza, República Dominicana. 2026.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200.
#leicam6 #myleicaphoto #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #35mm

Did you know we have a small exhibition space in the Park Plaza Hotel? On view now are seven prints from local photographer Mav Fernandez’ series Between Them which explores sibling relationships and the bonds, shared spaces, and complex social rituals that bind family together.

On Saturday, May 30th from 12-2PM join us to see this work and to learn more about Mav and his practice multi-layered and sensitive approach to photography.

Mav Fernandez @mavvro is a Dominican photographer whose artistic practice centers on photography as a means of reflection, connection, and understanding. Mav is interested in how images can hold emotional truth, and how they help us see ourselves and others more clearly. 

Across all of his work, his practice is guided by understanding, care, and preservation. Whether he’s photographing family, community, or himself, his work is always an act of love. A way of preserving the people and moments that shape our shared humanity.

@leicastoreboston @leicacamerausa

#BostonArts #ChasingLeitz

Did you know we have a small exhibition space in the Park Plaza Hotel? On view now are seven prints from local photographer Mav Fernandez’ series Between Them which explores sibling relationships and the bonds, shared spaces, and complex social rituals that bind family together.

On Saturday, May 30th from 12-2PM join us to see this work and to learn more about Mav and his practice multi-layered and sensitive approach to photography.

Mav Fernandez @mavvro is a Dominican photographer whose artistic practice centers on photography as a means of reflection, connection, and understanding. Mav is interested in how images can hold emotional truth, and how they help us see ourselves and others more clearly. 

Across all of his work, his practice is guided by understanding, care, and preservation. Whether he’s photographing family, community, or himself, his work is always an act of love. A way of preserving the people and moments that shape our shared humanity.

@leicastoreboston @leicacamerausa

#BostonArts #ChasingLeitz

Did you know we have a small exhibition space in the Park Plaza Hotel? On view now are seven prints from local photographer Mav Fernandez’ series Between Them which explores sibling relationships and the bonds, shared spaces, and complex social rituals that bind family together.

On Saturday, May 30th from 12-2PM join us to see this work and to learn more about Mav and his practice multi-layered and sensitive approach to photography.

Mav Fernandez @mavvro is a Dominican photographer whose artistic practice centers on photography as a means of reflection, connection, and understanding. Mav is interested in how images can hold emotional truth, and how they help us see ourselves and others more clearly. 

Across all of his work, his practice is guided by understanding, care, and preservation. Whether he’s photographing family, community, or himself, his work is always an act of love. A way of preserving the people and moments that shape our shared humanity.

@leicastoreboston @leicacamerausa

#BostonArts #ChasingLeitz

Did you know we have a small exhibition space in the Park Plaza Hotel? On view now are seven prints from local photographer Mav Fernandez’ series Between Them which explores sibling relationships and the bonds, shared spaces, and complex social rituals that bind family together.

On Saturday, May 30th from 12-2PM join us to see this work and to learn more about Mav and his practice multi-layered and sensitive approach to photography.

Mav Fernandez @mavvro is a Dominican photographer whose artistic practice centers on photography as a means of reflection, connection, and understanding. Mav is interested in how images can hold emotional truth, and how they help us see ourselves and others more clearly. 

Across all of his work, his practice is guided by understanding, care, and preservation. Whether he’s photographing family, community, or himself, his work is always an act of love. A way of preserving the people and moments that shape our shared humanity.

@leicastoreboston @leicacamerausa

#BostonArts #ChasingLeitz

La niña y su refresco, en la calle que nos crió.

Leica M6 + @kodak Kodacolor 200

#leicam6 #madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #chasingleitz #myleicaphoto

The kind of drive where the light stays longer than expected and your thoughts get louder than the road.

Taos, New Mexico. 2025.

#madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #leicam6 #chasingleitz #myleicaphoto

The kind of drive where the light stays longer than expected and your thoughts get louder than the road.

Taos, New Mexico. 2025.

#madewithkodak #kodacolor200 #leicam6 #chasingleitz #myleicaphoto

Polaroid of my mother, my aunt, and myself, the day my Aunt arrived to America. December, 1996. @polaroid

Thinking a lot about legacy.
About family.
What we build for ourselves and what we then leave behind for them.
For me.

I’m thinking a lot about our decisions and how sometimes we feel the repercussion immediately. And other times we feel them 30 years later.

I’m thinking about time, and how it passes.
Or maybe how we give it away.

I don’t remember this image, but it still belongs to me. This is part of my history that exists without my consent,
without my memory,
but not without impact.

Photography was a part of my life long before I knew it.
I didn’t know this was a moment.
I didn’t know I were being held
in a way that would one day matter.
I didn’t know I’d end up with this Polaroid in my possession.
But now I am the only one
who can hold both; the feeling
and the proof.

Our time should be spent making memories.
How lucky we are to have things to lose.
And how privileged we are to choose to make more of them.

I’m thinking about everything that never became a memory.
I wish I had more to lose.