TITLE: The Hands Behind the Loom

The Hands Behind the Loom is a photographic project
executed with film cameras, which is in the phase of
conceptualization and post-production, developed in
Teotitlán del Valle (Oaxaca, Mexico); and that mixes genres
photographic, such as documentary photography, landscape, street,
gastronomic, portrait, and surreal, as a resource
narrative.
During a trip to Oaxaca, among several people, Luis Michel
he met Olga, Luis, and Luis, a native family and inhabitants of
Teotitlán del Valle, heir to ancestral weaving techniques
with wool on a pedal loom and dyed with natural pigments and
animals, with whom he weaved an important bond of friendship,
the same that led him to live for a period of time in the house of the
family.

Throughout his stay, Luis's photograph would go
transforming, between the ease and comfort that the step
of the days and the naturalness that at some point the cameras
were part of the everyday objects of the scenes of the
home, documenting in a respectful, consensual,
real, spontaneous, and honest the day-to-day of what ended up being
an intimate, collaborative, and ethnographically important record.

AUTHOR: Luis Michel (Mexico)

Luis Michel, Mexico City, 1994.
From an early age he held two immovable interests: art,
later defining himself by photography and specializing in format
35mm and 120mm analog photography, as well as digital photography; and the
crossings, a practice that he would eventually carry out more frequently and
it would be part of his creative process and photographic practice.
He studied a Bachelor's Degree in Financial Administration from the Institute
Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), during that
period of professional training he obtained an academic residency by Fudan
University in Shanghai, China; stay that sensitized his contact with
Eastern philosophies and practices.
In recent years, he has strengthened his knowledge through postgraduate studies in
analog and digital photography at the IMAGO Institute with the Photography Workshop
Analog taught by Pedro Alayón; Franz Mayer Museum with the Workshop of
Photographic Projects taught by Iván Macías and the most recent,
Diploma in Analog Photography taught by Valeria Arendar and Sebastián
Machado at the Active School of Photography.