Dreams in Infrared

Through chromatic manipulation that favors pink, orange, and violet tones, the images aim to evoke a dreamlike, almost hallucinatory atmosphere, as if the landscape were revealing itself in another light frequency: a kind of emotional infrared.

Dreams in Infrared is a visual exploration of the Poblano desert, focusing on the cacti of a little-known area called El Cerrito, in San Sebastián Zinacatepec.

Sueños en infrarrojo / Infrared reeves
Fotografía / Photography: Astrid G. Castillo Pacheco

Through chromatic manipulation that favors pink, orange, and violet tones, the images aim to evoke a dreamlike, almost hallucinatory atmosphere, as if the landscape were revealing itself in another light frequency: a kind of emotional infrared.

Sueños en infrarrojo / Infrared reeves
Fotografía / Photography: Astrid G. Castillo Pacheco

The series does not aim to document, but to evoke. The use of color seeks to provoke a sensory experience that transforms the everyday gaze upon the desert into a kind of visual spell.

Sueños en infrarrojo / Infrared reeves
Fotografía / Photography: Astrid G. Castillo Pacheco

The vertical forms of the cacti become columns of a wild temple, while the insects (as seen in some of the images) serve as quiet witnesses to a natural ritual unfolding far from the spotlight of tourism.

The series is conceived as a visual letter to forgotten landscapes and to the lights that can only be seen when one looks with different eyes.

Step into the world of Dreams in Infrared, a series that transforms the Poblano desert into a dreamlike scene, where color and form invite us to look with different eyes and discover the silent beauty of forgotten landscapes, by Astrid G. Castillo Pacheco.

Sueños en infrarrojo / Infrared reeves
Fotografía / Photography: Astrid G. Castillo Pacheco