‘In the morning, we dash along the sidewalks – you on your side, me on mine, watching as people cross the busy street.’
In I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours, is a collaborative journey along the US–Mexico border with Andres Gonzalez, my partner of twenty years. Traversing towns and waterways together, we photographed the same subjects from different perspectives, capturing everyday scenes that appear both staged and ad hoc. The resulting series of image pairings confront the challenges of relating to one another, finding balance, and defying conventional identities.
The collaboration prompted us to reflect on our different family histories of migration and the ways our backgrounds intersect and diverge. Deliberately eschewing the temptation to follow a singular narrative or freeze a fleeting moment in time, we wanted instead to suggest the multifarious nature of existence along the border.
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours is published Mack Books (September 2024)