Larry Louie González

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For over twenty-five years, photography has been my refuge and compass, a way to navigate memory, identity, and belonging. Rooted in my Puerto Rican upbringing and shaped by long absences and brief returns, my work moves from documenting memory to constructing it. I merge cinematic lighting, digital tools, and large-format photography to create staged narratives that exist between reality and imagination. Recent projects expand this inquiry into Latin America, exploring how history and personal experience inhabit space. Ultimately, I aim to build a personal mythology through images that blur fact and fiction, preserving memory while reinventing its form.

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Larry Louie González (b. 1962, Ponce, PR) is a Puerto Rican photographer and educator whose large-format staged portraits and landscapes explore memory, identity, and the shifting space between reality and fiction. Mentored by Abelardo Morell and Laura McPhee at the Massachusetts College of Art, he earned his MFA at the Yale School of Art, where Gregory Crewdson and Philip-Lorca diCorcia left a lasting influence on his practice. Drawing further inspiration from American history and literature, as well as his background in cinematography and documentary filmmaking, González creates visually compelling images that merge the constructed with the found, shaping surreal worlds where personal and cultural narratives intersect. His current project, Sur, produced in Argentina, extends these explorations into a meditation on memory, place, and collective storytelling. He lives and teaches in San Francisco, California.