“Take a picture of me standing here in front of the brown wall so it looks like I’m an elephant bathing in mud,” five-year-old José Balcazar told his father, a chef who goes by the same name, before heading out to a spring festival. Father and son share through @balcazardescansa their weekend trips to Michoacán, in the west of Mexico. “It’s a really nice relationship. He is not only my son, he is my friend,” says the older José, who adds that his son chooses the locations to be photographed while he takes care of the composition and framing of the picture. Beyond photography, the account lets them create shared memories. “When the weekend is approaching, I start to review places I visited as a child and that’s one of the ways in which we decide where to head on the weekend,” says José. “Memories take us to those places.” For more on a father-and-son journey, follow @balcazardescansa. To explore more stories from around the Spanish-speaking community, follow @instagramES. Photo by @balcazardescansa