What’s photography for you? Photography for me is a tool for life. Both, as a means of expression and a psychological aid that helps me understand my existence. It is the drive that gives me guidelines to keep myself focused, since I get easily distracted. Photography changed my life and has taken me to be a better person. What meaning lies behind the dialogue you develop between black and white and color in your photographs? Because of the way I see and interpret colors - I’m colorblind -, I feel at ease when I’m moving back and forth in-between colors, as I see them, and black and white, which evokes in me something that is not natural and generates a bigger contrast in the dialogue happening in my images. Is your work based upon contrasts? My images are filled with life and life is filled with contrasts. How do you achieve such involvement with the subjects you photograph? Sometimes loneliness becomes hard to compel, so I try to avoid it relating myself with random people, delving in those relationships and spending time together, sharing states of mind and diverse situations. All these stimulate me to document lived experiences. Tell us about your stay in Guatemala. It was extremely intense. I lived it all compressed in 28 days, during which, at times, reality presented itself naked and uncovered, overwhelming me. It was a challenge and I strived to document it, I was photograph-
ing intensely everything that surrounded me. Most of the time I was not aware of what I was living, I was obsessed shooting pictures and wanted to posses everything. This helped me get into places and situations out of my control that enhanced a state of disorientation. Is there a process you follow when working? Usually I let intuition guide me; I don’t have many fixed coordinates or a previous script. There’s a part of me in each photograph I capture when I’m not repressing myself, free of prejudices. I work freely in order to do what I want, how I want, without limits. I move by reflex and shoot. When I’m shooting, my cognitive part is left in the background while my emotions take the lead. What are your images explaining? They talk about a certain type of beauty, disorientation and chaos, and are emphatic on moments I consider extraordinary. Violence, religion, sex, architecture, love, wounds, solitude, parties, is there any topic you still have not explored and you would like to document? Right now I’m working on another level of intimacy that requires a different aesthetic approach. Silence, contemplation and the present moment are themes that explore new grounds of intensity. How far along are you on this project? I’ve been walking, wandering and taking pictures of a mountain for a year and a half, and still, I’m not sure where this project is heading to, we’ll see.
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