Yolanda

Yolanda explores the identity and inner life of a domestic worker, reflecting the dignity, resilience, dreams, and invisible labor of many women across Latin America. Through intimate and symbolic portraits, her own voice and story emerge.

Yolanda is a photographic exploration of the inner life, identity, and dignity of a domestic worker. Through staged portraits, gestures, objects, and fragments of her handwritten thoughts, the series moves beyond the role she performs for others to reveal the woman behind it: her dreams, faith, love, exhaustion, memories, and desires.

Yolanda’s story becomes a reflection of many women across Latin America whose domestic labor is essential yet often remains invisible. The images explore the tension between being seen and being overlooked, between what is expected of a woman and what she carries within herself.

Rather than portraying Yolanda solely through struggle, the series seeks to create a space where she can exist beyond her occupation — vulnerable, imaginative, weary, powerful, and deeply human. Her words become an essential part of the work, allowing her own voice to coexist with the photographic interpretation of her story.