The family is not chosen

"The family is not chosen" is a project carried out during the quarantine, with the aim of spending part of my daily time on it. Understood more as part of leisure time than as work.

For its development I have resorted to the use of images from the Gombau collection, which my family partly owns, and images from our family album.

This file has been with us all our lives and with it, this family. They have been an active part of our routine, our conversations, discussions, research and projects. They have sat at the table with us and we with them. In short, they have taken up more space and time than other members of our family and we probably know better.

Hence this project arises. On the one hand, the need to spend part of my free time during the period of confinement and on the other, the romantic idea that, after walking a lifetime with the Gombau family, perhaps it was time to get together and live together forever in a place that brings us together, that brings us closer. And what better than two families of photographers find themselves using photography as a support.

The series is made up of forty images, intervened by me.

The final result has been a series of portraits involving both families. For this and as a starting point, I have used images of members of the Gombau family, representing the classical photography of the time. The portraits of our family have been integrated into them, already using contemporary tools and methods and bringing each of the images from our family album to the representation of the basic unit of the current photography, the pixel.