
Ruth
ESSAY by Felipe Aja Espil, Preselected
This work is about Ruth. My mother.
I know she was born 13th of may of 1929. The next thing we know is through a photograph taken in 1949. There is a blank of twenty years.
Where did she live, who took care of her, who were her friends, her boy-friends. I wonder why I started the search so late.
I had always been deceived by her stories, and when I wanted to know, her illness wouldn’t let me.
There were moments when I wrongly felt she was coming back to me, Taking photos of her was the only thing left for me to do.
During her last 5 years I visited and took photos of her. Now I search some meaning in those images.
I also found her letters which we read together but did not understand.
This work is about a story she never told me, even though it ́s in black and white.










