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OPEN CALL
01 – 30, MAY 2026

Joel Orozco

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

United States

An Enigmatic Desire

I am currently working on two ongoing bodies of work, the first ongoing project. I've been working on it for over three years in Mexico where I want to photograph the things that have always interested me. For example, the difference between social classes; the privileged and the unprivileged the beautiful and the ugly, the rich and poor, etc, l. But, miraculously, sometimes life puts us in front of these surreal encounters with our subjects. The second is a street project that I've been working on, for a year in Los Angeles documenting human activity. Moreover, I created this incoherent portfolio of two ongoing bodies of work that they feel is almost finished but yet haven’t found a solution to edit and sequence the work altogether or as an individual single project. So, I edited this portfolio of images to align my two projects into one; and to create a narrative where reason will intervene as little as possible. Lastly, all the photographs you’re about to see in this body of work are true and are taken only from life’s imagination. If they seem enigmatic or absurd to understand “so is life”. Because I try to concentrate on finding what the naked eye is unwilling to see the crossing from the mysterious to the real. To conclude, I am simply a humanist who looks at everything with penetrating sight, the ugly and the beautiful, the pure, and the impure, therefore, I’m just an observer with a little bit of imagination and some luck. ps It's one single project please view all the twenty images in their selected order.

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