Market Intimacy

Market Intimacy is a project exploring the intimacy of merchants, captured in their universe. The images were taken in February 2016, in one of the markets of Merida, in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Markets are public places. Everyone can go for a walk, shop, eat, wait, read, etc. Unlike the bustle of the street, here people do not go anywhere. The market is their destination. And there are also those who work there, the merchants. They do business, discuss, have fun between sales, get bored, rest or watch people go by. The market is their daily life. So they do not pay attention to people around them, so they do not perceive my camera. We enter into their intimacy. I can then capture them naturally. They do not pose for me and that's what interests me in this project. I feel then to discover their personality through what they release in their moments of boredom and emptiness. It is a fragment of their daily lives and their lives. It seems to better capture a person in those moments -when it does not pose in front of the device- I feel to better know them. Because it is these moments of emptiness, of hollow that reveal the most about us; when we are bored, we are lost in our thoughts or we repeat the same gestures tirelessly. It is thus easier to immerse ourselves in their universe. We have the impression of grasping their history and their deep nature.