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Análogo Playero

Personal Series · Analog Photography

Analogo Playero is an ongoing photographic diary made along mainland Mexico’s Pacific coast, across Oaxaca, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, and Sinaloa.

The project observes the everyday life organized around the ocean: roads, coastal villages, campsites, board repairs, shared meals, friendships, and long periods of waiting. Rather than focusing on surfing as spectacle, it looks at the quieter rhythms that exist around it.

The series is also a quiet form of resistance to the accelerating pace of contemporary life. In places where time is still shaped by the landscape, the weather, and the sea, a day can feel like a day again.

Photographed entirely on a Contax TVS point-and-shoot, the work embraces the uncertainty of the analog process: grain, shifting colors, uneven exposures, missed focus, and other accidental traces. Rather than flaws to be corrected, these imperfections become a counterpoint to the seamless visual perfection increasingly produced by automation and artificial intelligence. They preserve accident, limitation, and physical presence—evidence that an image was made in the world, not generated outside of it.