Costa Rica
Lara lies on the floor at home, covered by photos, cut-outs, drawings and other papers. She rummaged through her mother’s ‘treasure box‘, which has letters and photos and other memories. Lara asked her photographer mother, Priscilla Mora Flores, for a photo of herself covered by Priscilla’s most valued moments in life.
In Lara’s home, the family was quarantined early, as Priscilla was hospitalized with AH1N1 influenza. “I thought that because of my work, in which I usually have contact with foreign people, I could have had COVID-19. The diagnosis was swine flu, the last pandemic registered before this current one,” says Priscilla.