Soulpic · Roberto Martínez, photographer in Oaxaca and Monterrey, Mexico

— In their words

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  I told Roberto that sometimes, when I sing, whales come. He didn't laugh. Halfway through the shoot I started singing and one appeared, out of season. I don't know what was more magical: that, or seeing myself in the photos so calm, so me.

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  Roberto was with us through the whole process: the civil ceremony, the casual shoot and the wedding day. By the wedding he was one of us, and you can see it in the photos: nobody posed, everyone was just being themselves.

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  Photographing a contact improvisation workshop is hard: it's all movement, contact, floor. Roberto moved with us without interrupting anything, and the photos carry the same energy we lived under the palapa.