Peruvian photographer Raul Guillermo examines the cultural construct of hombría through a series that moves between documentary and staged imagery. The photographs are quiet and contemplative, capturing bodies, domestic spaces, and empty landscapes that hint at inherited expectations and unspoken emotional weight. There is a restrained, filmic quality to the work that invites slow looking.

The project stems from a personal reckoning with the phrase "Men should not cry," and Guillermo translates that inherited belief into images that hold contradiction rather than resolve it. By blending portraiture with still life and environment, he opens a space for vulnerability and dialogue, making masculinity visible as something negotiated rather than fixed. A nuanced and visually compelling body of work.