The art of seeing what hurts

Chronicle of a doctor-photographer

Abstract

I was a Family Doctor for four decades. A retired doctor and late photographer, I found in the chiaroscuro of the lens and the honesty of stories a language to decipher what medical records never captured: the intimate universe of feelings.

This series of stories is born from that living archive: photographs, confessions recorded on the edge of a desk, letters never sent. Each text is an attempt to reveal, as if in a darkroom, the emotions that time did not develop. Because deep down, portraying others was my way of understanding what lay beneath their own silence. Read these pages not as other people's stories, but as mirrors. Because in every moment captured (whether with the camera or with words) there is a universal truth: only when we name what we feel, we begin to heal.