Territorios _ Jigsaw
Territorios is a photographic investigation of different communities coexisting in the same territory. In this project Susana Lopez Fernandez presents her thoughts about coexistence, tolerance, respect, diversity. It is a reference to our necessity to adapt to a new culture while at the same time we try to preserve our origins.
After two World Wars, the success of Communism in Russia or Nazism in Germany, Industrial Revolution, the dismantling of the Colonial Empires and other historical events, the migratory movements were increased.
In 2013, this project started in New York and later it is moving to London. In the once capital of the wide British Empire, more than fifty races coexist, over 300 languages are spoken and there are more than 150 different religions.
Once again, I use photography to present my thoughts about coexistence, tolerance, respect, diversity, and our necessity to adapt to a new culture while, at the same time, we try to preserve our origins. Different communities with popular traditions that survive through time and space.
Territorios is a personal reflection, born through her observation of all these communities matched together as pieces of a jigsaw. This is why the translation from Spanish to English is not literal. When she was thinking in Spanish she was drawn to the word 'Territorios', but when she translated it to English she used Jigsaw, because she liked the sound of this word, and also because it expresses how she imagines communities fit in together.