I began shooting "How do You Want to be Seen?" in mid-March, at the start of the pandemic. I was locked-down in San Juan, Puerto Rico with my family there, after being ordered out of Brazil, where I had been conducting a community art project on a Fulbright Fellowship. I used gay dating apps to connect with the collaborators seen in these portraits. I asked them to consider the power of images, to give them control of their own depiction. We conducted the shoots at a safe social distance, mostly outdoors. Each photo is paired with a quotation from the person seen in the portrait, which is their answer to the question posed in the title of this series. The quotations will be displayed in Spanish and English.