Their work explores memory, identity, and home through photography, video, and sound, focusing on family, migration, and cultural storytelling. Vazquez’s thesis, Un aplauso para mi familia porque en verda’ rompieron, examines how memory is preserved and transformed across generations, mainly through the experiences of their grandmother, mother, and themselves. Growing up in a vibrant Puerto Rican family, Vazquez was surrounded by family photographs that symbolized resilience and connection to Puerto Rico. Their work blends archival images with black-and-white portraits, landscapes, and objects, creating a dialogue between past and present. Vazquez explores how history transcends the photograph using textures, digital manipulation, and layering.
Ashley Vazquez is a Puerto Rican photographer, filmmaker, and multimedia artist from the Bronx, New York. Currently, Vazquez works as a rental associate and social media at Triode Rentals in Lancaster, PA, a film and commercial video equipment rental house, while creating projects that document personal and cultural narratives through a cinematic lens. She crafts multiple video postcards, for travel, and street photography, thereby seizing gentle, visually gripping instances that many others could miss via still shots, static films, and ambient sound so viewers are quite fully absorbed.
