http://www.carla-rodriguez.com/currentongoingprojects daily 1.0 2025-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1404184721191-IVEBBEWGWEQY8ZKXK6WT/mami5%28spotted%29.jpg Current & Ongoing Projects - Home (Still Life#1) 20"x24", Inkjet Print Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You (Mama & Papa) is an ongoing series which I expect to work on for the duration of my life. My Mother passed away May 18th, 2012 due to terminal cancer. These images deal with the brief period she fought for, and the ongoing aftermath of losing her.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1611881378044-W8M3CXML7VHCYOV4GZ52/img001.jpg Current & Ongoing Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1611883157502-1ZCJCB8YK7P9J2Q07KGB/briandigitalmockup.jpg Current & Ongoing Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1611882028272-QJSFYLJIL6JLLXRPO4QE/4.jpg Current & Ongoing Projects - Rose Whats Your Real Name? is a project dedicated to exploring sex work (specifically stripping) and the intimacy and fantasy surrounding these humans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1611882881438-9TUIH9YSGKJO1FO06PZR/IMG_2300.jpg Current & Ongoing Projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1742924815276-TIJY1UHKH2D0BO94D39U/img007.jpg Current & Ongoing Projects 2020- Ongoing As an extension of the portraits I was making at George Floyd Square for the Black community there, I began also extending the practice to the Indigenous community on Indigenous Peoples Day. All participants as self-selecting, and get to keep the original tintype as well as the digital copy. Portraits are made free of charge, and participants may still have their portrait made and decline to have the image published or displayed as apart of this project. There is a deep and conflicted history of wetplate depicting indigenous populations of the Americas. Though there is gratitude for the record produced by the most well known, Edward Curtis, there is also exploitation, fetishization, othering, and lack of agency for those photographed during this time. My intention with this project is mainly to give agency back to modernIndigenous peoples in how they are represented in these images and ownership over those images and how they are used or not used. It is also important to me to contribute to photo records of these families and using an archival process known for its longevity and staying power. Lastly, race as a Latinx person can be confusing, especially personally as me and my family have never been perceived as “white”, but I’ve learned that part of what makes my family brown is our indigenous heritage, specifically to the native people of Venezuela. Part of my experience growing up first generation american was my family's desire to assimilate into american culture, so this part of us was pushed aside and not really talked about. Even though each native community is different, it is my desire to connect to this part of myself by connecting to indigenous community of Minnesota and to serve them in this way, and my hope is that this will put me on the path to connect to my own personal indigenous roots. This work, in part, was made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund. http://www.carla-rodriguez.com/20092012-projects daily 0.75 2021-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1399993190383-NGZEJDCT1I1Z0H6JRHUB/water2.jpg 2009-2012 Projects - In Every Way (Water) 30"x40", Silver Gelatin Print Edition of 1   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1399996803701-1P9V6IG1I9SDM470AOCQ/01_NowThatYou%27reOlder%28%231%29.jpg 2009-2012 Projects - Now That You're Older #1 20"x24", Polaroid Edition of 1   Shot on the 20x24 Polaroid camera in NY, this series deals with my evolving relationship with my younger sister as she matures.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1400456426472-RWUP50CB2UPTRFIVZ1JH/alyssa2.jpg 2009-2012 Projects - Untitled (Hair Portrait #1) 8"x10", Silver Gelatin Print Edition of 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1400459117970-RRP5GTO4LWOTXSVQ40OG/10_ForTheBetter.jpg 2009-2012 Projects - For The Better (Apologies 11/15/10-03/06/11) For The Better (Apologies 11/15/10 – 03/06/11) is a photographic project that documents how many times in a day I apologized. I used a hand counter and tick marks in a journal to monitor the amount of times I said “I’m Sorry” per day with the stipulation that if I reached a day when I did not apologize, I would stop keeping track, which happened on the 112th day, March 6th. Each apology translates to one exposure on a 4”x5” sheet of film. The accumulated negatives for each day are then consecutively exposed onto a single sheet of paper. The amount of apologies per day visually represents varying amounts of distortion in the self-portraits. All 112 prints are hung together in a grid chronologically to better visualize the progression and regression of my struggle with the phrase “I’m Sorry”. Depending on my use of the word “Sorry”, my image is transformed, distorted, and blurred from day to day. My hope with this project is twofold: to create a piece that allows personal growth as well as to test photography’s ability to show an internal psychological experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1400458581727-0LIE7F4I06VCCKKR8BXT/carlatoba2%28roughandcrop%29.jpg 2009-2012 Projects - A Metaphor 16"x24", Silver Gelatin Print Edition of 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1400000532238-WITMMY3I8H58I4QE0BSD/SomedayYou%27llThankMe%231.jpg 2009-2012 Projects - Low & Difficulty 25"x21", Silver Gelatin Print Edition of 2   Composites made by contact printing 8"x10" film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1400458283706-43MN1BTVEPWML7JFIN0K/PinholeHand%28small%29.jpg 2009-2012 Projects http://www.carla-rodriguez.com/contact daily 0.75 2014-07-01 http://www.carla-rodriguez.com/about daily 0.75 2021-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/537166e1e4b08004714a952b/1611878528592-K1HUTSSFXIHY90IS0J5S/img001.jpg About