Biography:
Born in Mexico City in 1969. Freelance photographer based in Mexico City. From December 1993 until December 2002 he represented the international photographic agency Gamma-Liaison (later Getty Images News Service) as a press correspondent in Mexico and Latin America. He is currently represented by the Austrian Anzenberger Agency.
He completed 2 years of the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, S.F. CA 1991-1992, obtaining the Continuing Student Merit Award and the Foreign Student Scholarship in 1992.
His photographic work has been published in national and international magazines, newspapers and books and has been exhibited in more than 5 countries. He recently won the Acquisition Award of Mexico's most prestigious photographic competition: the XII Photography Biennial, in September of 2006.
Statement:
"So that I can be, I have to be someone else go out of myself, look for myself amongst the others, the others who are not if I do not exist, the others who give me full existence"
Octavio Paz
As a photographer born in a country of enormous contrasts and inequalities, I often portray social classes different from the one I belong to. All throughout my career in this circle, I have noticed the little attention that the Mexican photographic-documentary sector pays to the middle and middle-high class, due to the tendency to social margination as a thematic frame.
Such lack brought upon a change in the contents of my pictures and channelled this proposal towards the search of an intimate essay of my privileged environment. With no intention to judge, and a kind look, I investigate situations that represent how important it is for me to be part of a group of people joined together by friendship. Thus, I seek to turn the faces and existence of my friends into signs that recall self experiences in the spectator.
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