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Donde No Puedas Verme (Where Your Gaze Can’t Reach Me) by Saraí Ojeda is a photobook published in Mexico by Inframundo. Between text and image, this photobook illustrates the complex history of three generations of women in the author’s life. The mother’s house, full of dolls and peculiar objects, becomes a space of fantasy and terror, serving as a metaphor of a complex and dramatic familial story that Ojeda approaches by oscillating between fiction and reality. Donde No Puedas Verme includes both intervened file images, photographs taken by the author, texts in both English and Spanish, and a delicate construction that includes several different booklets. This hardcover book is signed by the author.
Saraí Ojeda lives and works in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. She is a professor and researcher at the Autonomous University of Chapingo. She teaches photography at the Morelense Center for the Arts and is part of the faculty of arts at the UAEM. She holds an Master of Arts from the University of Granada, Spain. She attended the Contemporary Photography Seminar of the Centro de la Imagen and the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín, Oaxaca (2014), and was part of the Photobook Incubator program at Hydra + Fotografía (2016). Her work has been exhibited individually in the National Fototeca and selected in the Biennials of Toluca, Veracruz, Puebla and Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca.
Inframundo is an independent publisher and collective based in Mexico, which experiments with different narrative tools and hybrid production practices in order to produce photobooks. A project of Hydra, Inframundo is Ana Casas Broda, José Luis Lugo, and Ramon Pez.