Love, although a deeply personal journey, can be a shared experience.Love takes us on a journey, guiding us to the essence of our own emotions. Through the act of loving, we not only gain the precious gift of understanding one another but also embark on a magical self-discovery process. We may think we are uncovering the depths of the other person, only to realize that we are actually discovering ourselves, much like gazing at our reflection in a mirror.
Understanding our own eroticism increases autonomy and fosters greater self-expression. Through our sexual choices—defining our identities, actions, and desires—we undergo personal transformation. Embracing this freedom expands our pleasure as we challenge societal norms and established boundaries.
Photography changes our way of seeing the world, of feeling and perceiving reality. It fosters intense processes of personal self-knowledge, knowing who we are and what we can do with who we are, a fundamental resource for the achievement of happiness.
Photographs taken during the PHOTOGRAPHY TO GET TO KNOW YOURSELF training by the participants.
“Paint Your Mind” is the name of one of the exercises we conducted last November at ASPRONA, the Valencian Association for People with Intellectual Disabilities, as part of the Dins Project: “Photography Workshop as an Empowerment Tool for Social Inclusion.”
The evocative power of images has been widely studied. Through them, forgotten memories and stories, which are part of both individual and collective memory, can be verbalized and even reclaimed from oblivion. In this sense, the photographic image is an effective tool for promoting historical discourse and preserving personal memory.
