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Three sisters: a drug dealer stuck in the parking-lot drinking culture of 2010, a naturist obsessed with personal hygiene and sharks, and a young woman fascinated by Victorian society. A mother fixated on health and cleanliness who dreams of being Joan Crawford, and a rural punk aunt who offers them refuge in the village whenever they need it. One family, an intense coexistence, a story that is as rooted in everyday life as it is extraordinary.
In this new installment of the series Are You Who I Think You Are?, Manuela Lorente immerses us in the shared universe of these five women. As is characteristic of her practice, she creates connections between documentary photography and disciplines such as literature and cinema, while casting a critical eye on social reality. Running throughout is a distinctive sense of humor that briefly relieves—and distances us from—the weight of everyday life.
Manuela Lorente (Madrid, 1991) graduated in Architecture and went on to study an International Master’s Degree in Photography and Project Management at Efti. She is devoted to storytelling by means of documentary photography. Her stories combine reality and fiction against the backdrop of Spanish popular culture, personal relationships and the tradition and identity of the city of Madrid. It is the photographs that subsequently inspire the stories, with eccentricity and picaresque as common threads.
ISBN 978-84-09-87030-1Dalpine, 2026Photographs: Manuela LorenteConcept: Héctor López Gamero & Manuela LorenteDesign: Jaime NarváezPrepress: Taller DigigráficoTexts: Pedro Colao León & Manuela LorenteSoftcoverOtabind21 x 29.7 cm160 pagesLanguage: Spanish
