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Maryse, 83, was born in Marseille. In 1969, she moved with her husband Michel to Sarcelles, a suburban city in the North of Paris. In August 2017, Michel passed away. Since then, I have been spending some time with her. At home she mourns while emptying the apartment from a variety of objects. When we are together, we remember Michel, we talk about life, death and absence. In a sense, we became confidants of secrets, fears and anecdotes. We replaced our respective solitudes - me as a migrant, she as a widow - within stories and dreams.
This is a story about life, absence, love and friendship. It documents the uncertain experience of being alone but also the alchemy of an unpredicted encounter.

Camilo Leon-Quijano is a photographer born in 1991 in Bogotá (COL). Phd Fellow in Sociology he explores the intersections between sociology, aesthetics and photography in an ethnographic fieldwork located in the Parisian suburbs.
He has been awarded with the LensCulture Emerging Talent Award 2018, the Grand Prix Paris Match of Student Photoreportage 2018, the Prix du Diaporama Sonore 2017 from Libération, Diapero and Fisheye Magazine, the Robert Lemelson F. Fellowship (American Anthropological Association) and the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology. He has been finalist at the LUMIX Festival for Young Photojournalism 2018, UNICEF Photo of the year 2018, the Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards and Lugano PhotoDays. In 2017 he was selected for the Nikon-NOOR Academy in Paris.
His work has been featured in several media such as the British Journal of Photography, The Washington Post, Fisheye Magazine, Libération, Paris Match, Le Parisien, VICE and Days Japan.