Diego Moreno - Huésped - 2018

Original edition limited to 500 copies (2018).

First book by the Mexican photographer; Diego Moreno.

Through images and text, Diego Moreno traces the complexity of his family history, marked by disturbing cycles of domestic violence, machismo, and attachment to the Catholic faith.

Developed over eight years — Moreno began this project at the age of 14 — the work takes the form of a family album that allows the author to explore his own identity, to create and recreate scenes that delve into the complex fabric of family relationships.

It also touches on occultism and popular beliefs of Chiapas, with images evoking rituals, demons, and ultra-Catholicism, a direct heritage from his childhood environment. The body becomes the territory that enables understanding the events experienced within the family clan.

Geographic context:
The work is deeply rooted in Chiapas (Mexico), a border state with Central America where since the Spanish Conquest indigenous, mixed and foreign cultures coexist in permanent social tension — the passage of clandestine migrants, the Zapatista struggle, indigenous peoples and descendants of Spanish colonists.

The author — Diego Moreno:
Born in 1992 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.
Recognized as one of the most important emerging Mexican photographers of his generation, he has received notably the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award 2018, the POY LATAM 2019 Iberian-American Photography Prize, and was selected as a Mexican Young Talent by FOAM Amsterdam in 2017 and as a photographer to watch worldwide by The British Journal of Photography in 2016.
His work has been published in Vogue Italia, The Guardian, Vice Magazine, Internazionale, and exhibited in about twenty countries.

- Binding: Hardcover, edition without dust jacket, as published
- Page count: 192 (unpaginated)
- Dimensions: 23.5 x 17.5 cm
- Language: English

Condition: Like new, interior free of annotations and dog-eared pages. Seems unread.
Cover in excellent condition with very minimal traces on the corners, slightly rubbed.
See the photos which are part of the description.

Will be shipped in careful, sturdy, traceable packaging.