Claudia Scheinbaum, new president of Mexico as photographed some years ago

When I followed MORENA's campaign, 6 years ago, Claudia Scheinbaum Pardo was running for governor of Mexico City, a role she held before resigning to aim for the role of the next president of Mexico.

On Sunday she was elected as new president and she becomes the first woman to hold this institutional position. I share here the photos I made 6 years ago:

In my journalistic coverage I have always given priority to a new journalism approach and therefore only reporting what is close to me. In reporting on the various electoral campaigns I have been concerned above all with describing the context of the barrios where I live. Clearly with this approach I clearly demarcate a territorial border that becomes the identity of the community closest to me, as if to avoid the national aim and to be interested in the theme in a way linked to the territory that I know and of which I am inevitably an interested party.

This is how the documentary work is constantly accompanied by a fil rouge that unites these documents with my daily research in the popular neighborhoods that I know and photograph daily.

My photography is certainly less institutional and less of the journalism you expect. More driven by an intentionality that starts from the bottom, of someone who lives in a working-class neighborhood and finds himself photographing the life around him, compared to a commissioned photographer.

Now that Claudia Scheinbaum has become the new president of Mexico, these photographs perhaps take on a different value. Anyone interested in purchasing them can contact me directly.