The photographer who portrays creative women

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Discover the Mestizaa's project , which combines feminine creativity with love for dogs and cats in a book There are two themes that surely we all like to look at on the web: cute images of pets and how our favorite creatives work. The Mestizaa 's project brings together both. It is a publication created by the Spanish photographer specialized in canine portraits Maider Sierra Menéndez, better known as Mestizaa ( mestizaa ), and the network communication specialist Ainhoa ​​​​​​Gurruchaga. In this 80-page paper publication you can see portraits of 15 creative women who share life with their dogs and cats in their work spaces and reflect on their links with them and also on their creative routines.

In this article we tell you how the photo retouching service project was born, who participates and how you can achieve it. Some of Mestizaa's portraits. Mestizaa's , the publication The idea of ​​​​​​creating Mestizaa's was born, like many creative projects, as a result of the surprising planetary confinement of 2020. After going through that experience and facing a work environment full of uncertainty, while having a beer in a bar in the city Spanish from Bilbao, Maider and Ainhoa ​​​​​​decided that, if they were going to put their energy into something during 2021, it would be in a project that they could really enjoy . This is how the desire arose to contact creatives from multiple universes and propose them to pose with their pets, in their work spaces.

Both felt another need: after so much virtuality, the pair wanted to create something tangible, something material, a paper publication. "We don't like to talk about a magazine because magazines have a certain periodicity and we don't know what will happen with this project that is just coming out to the world, but we wanted it to be something that we could play in real life, for now we just call it publication", explains Ainhoa ​​​​between laughs. The photographer who portrays creative women with their pets 4 This is what the cover of Mestizaa's looks like. Networking of creatives "We wanted to work with women we admire. We didn't know 80% of those who have collaborated on this project, but most said yes immediately. It's very tempting to pose with your canine and cat children," explains Ainhoa.