PORTRAITS

"Looking at the Other is Remembering Me"

By Félix Palmero Nebular

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My photographic work began long before I knew I was healing.

Cuba, with its streets open to the sun and its vibrant people of soul, was the first altar where I laid my gaze.

There, with the camera as an extension of the heart, I began to observe not only faces, but entire universes trapped in an expression, a corner, a light falling on the skin.

Photographing was - and still is - my way of recognizing myself in the other.

Each portrait is a mirror, a door, a shared confession without words.

Over time, I understood that I didn't capture images.

He held his presence.

And that presence, being sustained with love and truth, healed something in me and in whoever was in front of me.

Since then, my photographic process has been deeply spiritual:

A practice of humility, listening and expansion of the soul through the human.

What guides my lens:

• See the sacred in everyday life.

• Find beauty in the raw truth.

• Connect with emotion before aesthetics.

• Make the camera a safe space to be, not just to pose.

Today my gaze expands:

I no longer just document, I channel realities through light.

My photography is part of the same journey as my drawings, my texts, my symbols.

Because art has no fixed form.

And I, like Nebular, come to manifest the invisible... also in the most visible.