Letting Go
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This research-creation is a photographic-videographic approach to the concept of fatherhood. It is based on my experience as a father of two children aged ten and thirteen since our arrival as a family in Canada in 2022. It is a panoramic view of a time of change where, facing the challenges of fatherhood towards growing children, I begin a search in my years as a son with a father (who passed away in 2018) who marked and still marks my becoming in the world as well as my work as a father. His memory and his way of exercising fatherhood influence mine, which I feel as a middle ground between what I lived in my childhood-adolescence and the present-future of my children. If being a father implies conflicts and disagreements, how do childhood memories and reminiscences influence my practice as a father and the models I try to transmit to my children? My base of work is the world of family photography and filmmaking. Belonging to the environment that is photographed and filmed is a very powerful artistic-reflexive practice that opens thought to what is common to us as humans: the constant presence of belonging and separation in our work as parents.