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Remember me when dying with my last heart beat

This photographic project is trying to rescue the deceased portrait, an old Latinamerican and European tradition by which the stillbirth babys (those who die at the delivery) used to be photographed with their relatives since those kind of deaths were considered a blessing. The family could feel protected from then on because the baby's soul became a "Little Angel" who would take care of them forever.

Such photographic tradition was lost because it was stated as unhealthy, among other reasons. Also it happened that it was not nice to take pictures of people who died due to wars, dictatorships and global tragedies. Since then, death became a hugely painful circumstance.

This project recalls the deceased portrait within a present context: a consumer society which is individualist, toxic, polluted and pushy. Somewhere where babys are not "Beautiful Angels" but vulnerable, abandoned and misshapen babys, whose fake families uncover our poor moral reality one way or another.