Notes on Living in a "Ranchito". 

This project shares fragments of dialogues with families from a migrant community temporarily inhabiting a public space in Mexico City. The community is mainly composed of Venezuelan families waiting for their asylum application process in the United States. In this space, they form a mutual support community within Mexico's migration context, which is considered the most dangerous in the world by various international organizations.

The conversations emerged during the development of a photographic project proposed to the families: the transformation of their temporary dwellings, known as "ranchitos," into camera obscuras. This traditional photographic technique consists of creating a completely dark space where, through a small hole, images from the outside are projected inside the space. Additionally, photographic activities were carried out with children, as well as through the printing of family portraits and memories of their migration journey.

This project explores the possibility of a photographic act that results in the recording and socialization of collective knowledge of a community in constant renewal and resistance, whose permanence is increasingly threatened by possible eviction by authorities.