Casita de Turron

This book explores up-and-coming photographer Roberto Molina Tondopo's best-known series of works, La Casita de Turron. Roberto Molina Tondopo is a Mexican contemporary photographer. He graduated in photography from the National Center for the Arts in San Agustin in 2010, and won a fellowship from the Tierney Foundation in New York in 2011. This volume explores Tondopo's best known series of works, La Casita de Turron (the Nougat Cabin), in which his niece and nephew feature as the central characters. While the Tondopd brings humour, freshness and a certain ingenuousness to his account of their experience of the transition from childhood to adolescence, his images also speak more generally of the way identity is constructed at a time when media representation is confused with reality. "By photographing members of my family," Tondopo explains, "I look back to bits of my own past. Working in the genre of the psychological thriller lets me show the emotional state human beings are in when they traverse this tricky period of their lives and all the physical and hormonal upheavals that go with it."