synopsis
In his debut monograph, Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández depicts his domestic life and surroundings in the mountains of Costa Rica.
From the artist:
We ran a healing center, a garden for people to come and rest from their struggles. When it had eventually dissolved, I was wounded. Having once been the healer, I was too afraid to ask for help. Where we lived in the mountains, people would often exclaim how lucky I was to live in such a paradise, one which, for me, carried the ghost of a broken ideal. It became a cave of guilt and shame. Natsuko and the animals, the small slant of light that shone through the cracks of my depression, were emblematic of the freedom I longed for. Through them I could dig my way out and reencounter the beauty of what we really are in this world. I could find my role again.
We ran a healing center, a garden for people to come and rest from their struggles. When it had eventually dissolved, I was wounded. Having once been the healer, I was too afraid to ask for help. Where we lived in the mountains, people would often exclaim how lucky I was to live in such a paradise, one which, for me, carried the ghost of a broken ideal. It became a cave of guilt and shame. Natsuko and the animals, the small slant of light that shone through the cracks of my depression, were emblematic of the freedom I longed for. Through them I could dig my way out and reencounter the beauty of what we really are in this world. I could find my role again.
photos of the book
technical information
Published in 2023
Publisher : Trespasser
72 pages. 36 tritone and 5 color plates on uncoated paper
Dimensions : 25 x 38 cm
Publisher : Trespasser
72 pages. 36 tritone and 5 color plates on uncoated paper
Dimensions : 25 x 38 cm
about Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández
Emiliano Zúñiga Hernández (b.1990) is a photographer based in Costa Rica. In 2016 she co-founded the non-profit association Iniciativa Costa Rica (2016 – 2019), a healing center focused on facilitating working methods with the intention of freeing participants from deep-seated fears, self-judgments, limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviors. Since 2023, it has been teaching and co-facilitating creative workshops that invite its participants to explore their relationship with their past and present contexts, through a series of tasks and group feedback aimed at examining personal motivations and emotional responses in parallel to the production of photographs, texts, videos, audios, drawings, among other forms of creative expression. On the other hand, the author develops personal photographic projects that seek to establish a relationship between the dreamlike and everyday life.
more information
book in my collection
publisher : Trespasser
2023 (1st edition - 1000 copies)
Signed edition
2023 (1st edition - 1000 copies)
Signed edition