Ana Sofia Ayarzagoitia born and raised in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, MĂŠxico, on 22 December 1987. Currently studying her carrer of Photography at LCI (Lasalle College International). She has taken courses in New York, Florence, Poland, Cuba and Mexico. She was selected for the 2013 Programas de Fotografia Contemporanea teachers like Javier Limon Ramirez, Alejandro Cartagena, Allen Frame, Juan Jose Herrera and others. Recently she attended a workshop with Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris in Poland, ending with a group exhibition in Lodz Photofestival. Participated in an interview in Fototazo by Alejandro Cartagena, participate in the Winter Lights Festival 2013 by the Centro de la Imagen with projections of Norte Alameda Arte in Mexico City. She has participated in many group exhibitions inside MĂŠxico. They published her work in Larmagazine. She received the award from PubliMetro 2011. Intercultural Scholarship Contest LCI. 2012 Prize of La Plastica de San Pedro 2012.
Through my work I look for a reflection of my intimacy and others intimacy. Self portrait has been a very usefull tool in this quest for recognition. I am always intrigued by persons who live out of the social squemes. I like to acompany my work with some landscapes.
This series is about a specific group who lives in Monterrey. I consider Monterrey a very closed society. I like to take pictures of my friends because they are in some way breaking or revealing to all values we have been thought, most of us are from a religious school . With this pictures I feel like If I was opening a window to some very private moments of intimacy. Sometimes I make them pose and sometimes its just the moment.
This project was kind of a challenge to me. It was made in Poland in the city of Lodz during a 5 day workshop with Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris. I choose Marishka and Krishia because I saw there orange hair and was really courious of there relationship. It was a great experience photographing them in there day to day. We ended up being friends. And even though I didn´t spoke polish, nor they english or spanish, we could also communicate with signs and noises. It was a lot of fun. Everyday I spent with them and getting to know their suns and nieces was even more interesting for me. Their relationship was very intimate, even though they didn´t lived together.
Kena is a neighbor which I made friend this year and start to go to her house to photography her almost every day. She has recently lost a brother who had the same situation. It is amazing how she can let me in her world, which she believes she is only six year old .