Starting from a search for the generation of visual content, in which the level of intention and awareness of the message to be transmitted is mediated by an experimental and practical process of writing the image. In this way, social changes bring with them new challenges for the training of young people, their dynamics, collective practices and expectations are permanently transformed, turning them into technological nomads. Photography has been steeped in these changes in recent years: the popularity of social media, the wide coverage of communication networks, and the technical improvements of mobile devices have simplified the flow of digital information, overexposing users to avalanches, one-click visual messaging. As a society, we require visual literacy that allows us to read and write with images, with full awareness of the messages that are circulating. When rethinking the teaching-learning process of photography, an alternative proposal arises that tends towards the awareness of the present, sharpening the gaze from the experience lived in a practice of visuality without capturing images. Experience in which 18 students of Social Communication and Journalism from the University of Manizales and six externals were part of a case study. The research responds to how the daily practice of visuality is transformed through a reflective exercise mediated by digital platforms in times of confinement. This is how the project becomes a device for the training of young people, through artistic intention or empowerment as readers and image makers. Reflective visuality practice through visual and narrative-textual formats that elucidates the relationship of meanings as a conscious exercise in pretext images, context images and text images.