Past Lives #1: Buenos Aires (2018-2019)

Photos and notes from my third year of college

From 2018 to 2019, I spent my third year of undergrad in Buenos Aires. I was a Latin American studies major with a side-part and no tattoos when I left. In many ways, it was the first year of my life that I really knew myself. The life I had been living in America began to feel so small. Here is a scrapbook from that time, all shot on 35mm.

Delfina in Tigre. I met her after she ran up to me on a footpath because she thought I was pretty and handed me a bouquet of wildflowers.

Butterfly on Lola

Ina, the dog who lived in my laundromat. She was a Japanese Chin who was found in the street by a Japanese-Argentine family. Truly meant to be.

Lunar New Year at the Taiwanese cultural center.

Intermission at Teatro Colón

Ushuaia

Colonia

A dog named Juan Perón

Congresso, Aborto Legal women’s day march.

Whale skeletons in Tierra del Fuego

Self portrait in Tigre

Palermo

Lobos, Susana, 104 years old

Perrito Moreno

Dragon Porteño

Tigre

Alberto, my laundry man

Painting

Lola in Tigre

Ushuaia

Cami

Mid-Autumn Festival in Barrio Chino

Villa Crespo

Iguazu

Lunar new year

At the ballet

Villa Crespo

Lobos

Gauchos dancing