Piedemonte - Book (2025)

Piedemonte examines how intergenerational trauma and collective memories of violence shape the author’s thoughts, memory, and perception. The photobook pairs a selection of the black and white images of Piedemonte with others from the project happy/sad/neutral/unknown, in which the author applies a face‑recognition algorithm to reinterpret photographs from his family archive.

Intrusive thoughts, an obsession with recollection, and questions about the fragmentation of memory are central concerns that the book’s design mirrors through patterns of repetition, overlap and fragmentation. Images of past and present converge across pages with no margins or white space, underscoring the impossibility of stepping outside ingrained psychological patterns. The layout is circular — ending with the same images that open the book — so it embodies the project’s psychological motifs and alludes Colombia’s repeating cycles of violence, in which the end of one seems to be the beginning of another.