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. 

Through an artistic and educational proposal centered on the camera obscura technique, the project generated spaces of encounter with children and their families, intending to transform photography into a collective, non-extractive practice that promotes connection and mutual recognition. The traditional photographic method involved converting the families' temporary dwellings, known as "ranchitos," into camera obscuras—completely darkened spaces where external images are projected inside through a small aperture. The work included photographic activities with children and the printing of family portraits and memories from 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.