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By Leonor H. Alvarez
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out on February 14th 2025
PRECIOUS
Jan. 6th '25
(Here is the house)
``PRECIOUS´´ is my first sort of big personal artistic project. I'm making a film using raw footage taken in the early 90's filmed by my aunt Ana when she was just a teen. She always had a cinematic eye, and growing up I always admired any artistic projects that she was involved in, even if they were small ones. I always thought that she had huge talent and it makes me upset that she never took it to the next level, and made anything out of this diamond mine that is all of this material that I made her send me. ``PRECIOUS´´is a closeup of my family's everyday life from 1993 to 1994. A time period that many of us from this generation are so inspired from. This piece shows the most genuine side of my mom's side family, an open-minded for the time, extremely art and music inclined middle class Spanish family based in Santander, my hometown.
My aunt Ana is the youngest of three siblings, my uncle Manuel, who I've mentioned before, my mom Elena and her. They were one of the first families in the neighborhood to get their hands on a video camera, and my aunt loved going around filming everyone and everything she could, which led to her unintentionally documenting an (in my opinion) beautiful perspective of their lives and story.
official posters
photography by
Elena Alvarez
Nov. 19th '24
My uncle is in town! He surprised me with an express trip to Shanghai because he's working on a new movie. Him and his project partner Mario were completely clueless about needing a VPN here in China, they landed with a pocket full of useless cash and were completely uncommunicated until they arrived in Hong Kong, where they were able to message me and set up a meeting time and place for us to meet the day after. We had dinner and spent the weekend together, and it felt sort of surreal. It's not rare that my uncle is in China, since most of his visual art projects require him to travel to Asia quite often. But ever since I was little I envied him for his passion and weird travels. So to be able to experience it with him for the first time was incredible. He took us through all of the weird little streets and neighborhoods of Shanghai that he was already weirdly familiar with. We had dinner at a famous soup dumpling restaurant in the city, we talked about film, (His main occupation) and about his recent collaboration with Gaspar Noé, one of my favorite film makers. An asshole, as my uncle described him.
Yesterday I went to see Herbie Hancock live in Shanghai, which I still can't really believe to be completely honest. How old is that man? Like 84? He was jumping on stage, making the audience scream and throwing kisses to the women on the front row!! I left that auditorium feeling my heart pounding hard... It's so surreal to have seen him here in China, out of the many other places I could've seen him at. I know I'm gonna remember this night.
0ct. 30th '24
Camera: Nikon F3
Aug. 1st '24
These are pictures of my little dorm in Tilburg (The Netherlands), where I lived during my first year of uni studying jazz vocals.
I forgot I took these, I took them right when I started packing to leave for Spain before coming to China. To get to my bed you had to climb up a ladder and the radiator made weird noises at night. Still I think it's the cutest little room ever. The windows were huge and all my friends used to come over and sit on them to smoke. When more than 2 people wanted to spend the night, we had to inflate a shitty air mattress that would barely have any air left in the morning, and my favorite thing to do was getting up in the morning and opening the two huge windows to let the breeze in. The smell of incense was always present inside. I loved cooking in my little kitchen, warming up pancakes in the toaster and hosting little parties. Student life should last longer.
I have a little scrap book that I take with me almost everywhere. I've had many in my life, and over the years the style of the pages has changed quite a bit, as I'm writing this I'm getting a lot of new ideas. These are mostly from grade 11 and 12, although I've recently added new stuff to them like pics of me and a bunch of flowers I've collected. Cause I also have a cute little book where I keep and all the pretty flowers I can pick, as disgustingly cheesy as that might sound. I promise I'm not in my indie soft girl era you guys. I just really like how they smell when they're finally dry after keeping them squished in there for a few days.
June '24
My name is Leonor.
I'm a young Spanish woman with infinity of passions trying to find her way, and I have the urge to create something that I can look back on when I'm older! I love taking pictures, watching movies, writing about falling in love and out of it, not just with people, but with places and moments. And I'd love to share all of this with you.
This blog is a form of expression, I'll be documenting my experience as an Au pair in China, sharing my street photography project on the city of Hangzhou, my experience living in Bc, Canada, migrating to different continents over and over again as a young girl, and sharing my life progress as someone with many passions but with little idea of what to do with them.
If you like Urban photography, creative writing and Chinese culture, stick around!
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