Maita

Maita was married against her will at the age of 12, she hoped to escape from a violent home that relegated her to abandonment and poverty. Maita did not have a childhood, the little that she lived was to raise her siblings who, like her, suffered from their mother's abandonment. Maita watched over the upbringing of six children, all in the midst of poverty and deprivation, in addition Maita does not read or write, she is illiterate. This photographic project is a tribute to María Baronesa Gallegos Torres "Maita", my maternal grandmother. She is 70 years old and, like many women, she suffered gender violence at home. Recently widowed, with six children, fifteen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, Maita is the pillar of a family that has lived closely the roots of an ejido nestled in Alamo, Veracruz, Mexico. It is a gift from my photographic vision to all the effort and love that he has dedicated to the family throughout his life, it is to reconnect with my family past and delve into the documentation of a life dedicated to the Mexican home despite all the difficulties that the heteropatriarchal system has imposed over the years.