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"The Life Coach course has been very important since it has given me the tools I need to apply in my own life"

Five years ago, when I was going through a very difficult time in my life, I had my first experience with a life coach. That experience taught me to perceive life in a different way and led me into a spiritual world that I continue to this day. 

 As a photographer and with the arrival of motherhood, the need arose in me to want to record every moment of the world of my twin daughters. However, this connection was interfered with when noticing that one of them was beginning to show signs of something that, to this day, does not have a definite diagnosis and that causes a visible difference in its development.

 I ventured into the medical world in search of answers and paid little attention to the individual and emotional needs of my daughters and myself. The little acceptance of the evolutionary cycle in them generated a constant state of anxiety in our family.

The following years I sought, through my photography, a reconciliation with that maternal stage that I was not able to enjoy from the beginning.

 I decided to give my photographic style a complete turn and headed towards documentary photography, directing my focus on recording everyday moments within family experiences. What I seek is to be able to capture those moments that reveal authenticity and the magic that hides behind the routine, moments that are not predictable, that often go unnoticed, but that are full of messages. In 2019 I decided to do a master's degree in documentary photography and this experience gave rise to my life project Desigual (Unequal).

“Kaira and Zoe are identical twins: they share the same genetic code. However, a few months after her birth, the unknown for Zoe broke in: disordered sleep, strange movements in the body, intellectual retardation, frequent laughter and a constant state of happiness. There was never a diagnosis for her, but there were various speculations about her condition.

 Desigual is a photographic project that arises from facing a vital situation that is revealed through the daily life of my twin daughters. The strong union between them is interrupted by the visible difference in their development –both physical and cognitive– and by the need to want to heal what was never sick.

 The visual narrative of this project is based on metaphorical elements that relate the mysterious and delicate nature of the link between them and proposes, at the same time, a reconciliation between two truths that apparently cannot coexist: they are the same; They are different.

 Through play and coexistence free of prejudice, I begin to portray the communication links between Kaira and Zoe. Each one experiences their world in a different way; each one walks her own path: a path that always transcends the desire to want to be together.

 Desigual invites us to reflect on human relationships that are based on a concept of integration and emphasizes the ways in which we look at each other and how those same looks –many times– determine the way we build ourselves as individuals. Likewise, this project seeks to break with prejudices, to value diversity”.

Since I was little I have considered myself a fairly intuitive person and through my own experiences and teachings I would like to be an inspiration to help other people transform their lives. I dedicate myself to documentary photography of families and I am currently developing a workshop for children and adults in which they can express their inner world through photography, recognize their ability to imagine and create, to discover themselves and generate a reflection on those images that we see day by day which build the way we see the world.

 For me, the Life Coach course has been very important since it has given me the tools I need to apply in my own life experience and at the same time be able to accompany and guide people through their own processes.

Colleen Ordóñez Muller

Photographer

Lima, Peru

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