Raíces Sagradas
Align Magazine
Role - Art Director
Credits
Art Director, Copywriter & Voiceover: Anna De Sanctis
Videographer & Editor: Adrian Beltran
Videographer: Nathan Wooley
Models: Elias Contreraz, Eliyah Syrai, Carmen Peredia, Ailsa Huerta, Andrea Rivera, & Julian Ramirez
Stylists: Annika Patil, Diego Vasquez, & Eve Haghighi
A visual love letter to the ordinary sacred. This campaign was built around the idea that Latino audiences do not want to be celebrated from the outside. They want to be seen from within. Shot entirely at real community spaces, Chulas and El Rancho Meat Market, every creative decision was made in service of memory over message. The talent was never asked to perform their culture. They were asked to remember it. The color palette, the framing, the voiceover recorded in my own voice in Spanish first, all of it turned inward. What emerged was something quieter and more honest than advertising usually allows. A kitchen table that becomes an altar. Labor that becomes devotion. An inheritance that becomes identity.
