Sunlit beaches, resorts, and the promise of escape: in the Dominican Republic, places like La Romana, Santo Domingo, and Punta Cana are widely imagined through the lens of leisure. Yet in this series, life unfolds in the margins of those carefully maintained spaces: children wading into the sea after school, men resting in the shade of unfinished walls, families gathered behind barred windows, bodies at work, at rest, or simply passing time.

Photographed across neighborhoods shaped by tourism yet lived in beyond its gaze, the series turns everyday streets, stairways, courtyards, and shorelines into a raw, unfiltered studio. These are banal, uncelebrated spaces where routine replaces spectacle. People rarely perform for the lens; instead, they occupy the frame with quiet self-possession, absorbed in their own rhythms.

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