Lalito

Commissioned Series · Photography

After years away, Eduardo “Lalito” Garzón returned to Chele, Sinaloa, where his grandparents, Jesús “Chuy” Garzón and Petra Vizcarra, had remained. Chuy, one of the founders of the ejido, was 96 years old; Petra was nearing 90.

Commissioned by Lalito, the series began as a family portrait and became a record of return—of grandparents, relatives, domestic spaces and the landscape that had endured in his absence. Moving from the road into Chele to the intimacy of the family home, the photographs observe how migration stretches distance without severing belonging, and how memory survives through people, gestures and place.