Fantastic Creatures and Rituals

Fantastic Creatures & Rituals is an ongoing photographic project, a visual journal born from my encounters with a constellation of young beings who have shaped my inner world since I moved from Argentina to Europe. Captured in cities like Paris, London, Berlin, and Lisbon, these portraits are more than images, they are mirrors. Through them, I have learned to recognize my own shadows and light.

The series began almost unconsciously, as an instinctive act of documenting those who drew me in. Only later did I realize the deeper thread running through it, a quiet ritual of self discovery through others. These people, wild, whimsical, wounded, radiant, revealed something intangible yet deeply familiar. In them, I found kinship, a cluster that reflected parts of myself I had not yet fully seen.

Shot entirely on analog film, the work is raw and unfiltered. Nothing is staged or pre produced; I photograph them as they are, in moments of stillness, rebellion, vulnerability, and transformation. Through my lens, they shift into witches, elves, sirens, and fairies, beings both earthly and transcendent. Their presence turns ordinary spaces into realms of magic and meaning.

As the project evolved, so did my gaze. When I first arrived in Lisbon, I sought joy, simplicity, and light. With time, as my connections deepened and my sense of self expanded, my vision grew darker in the best possible way. I began to embrace melancholy, feminine power, the beautifully chaotic, and the fantastical. What emerged was not just aesthetic but emotional, a search for shelter in the tender disorder of others.

Fantastic Creatures & Rituals is a tribute to that search. To the raw, mythic spirit of youth. To chosen families. To the sacred found in what is often overlooked. And to the quiet, alchemical ways we recognize ourselves in those who dare to be seen.