What pieces or projects have you been working on lately?
Lately, I’ve been focusing on photographing my surroundings, documenting changes in my routines; new routes I take, or sometimes the same ones, but seen from a different perspective.
What I’d really love is to keep photographing bands, doing sessions, and experimenting with different types of film development to give each project a unique personality.
What did you learn (or unlearn) while working on them?
Honestly, I relearned how to use a camera. When I was shooting digital, I knew how to adjust things, but I didn’t always comprehend exactly what I was adjusting. Now, with a mechanical camera, I had to truly understand it again. I was a bit afraid of not knowing how to expose properly, but it turned out to be quite the opposite.
What words, ideas or emotions were going through your head?
Nostalgia is what’s most present in my mind when I take photos. Much of what I photograph are things I saw as a child or years ago, which I now look at with a lot of affection and love.
Were there any conversations, movies, music, or books that made their way into that work?
Asian cinema is something that’s always present when I think about taking photos: Yi Yi, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Moving, among others.
What's been the most difficult thing you've faced recently in your creative process?
I don’t feel like my creative process is fully developed yet, but it’s slowly taking shape.
What is your favorite restaurant and what do you recommend we order?
My favorite restaurant here in Culiacán is a place called Maneki Neko. They have some of the best homemade sushi around, and I highly recommend ordering the Eby Roll Especial.
If your life were a movie this month, what would it be called and who would write the soundtrack?
I think I’d call it Hodori, and I’d love for Mil Ataris por Segundo to do the soundtrack.
Recommend one or more artists you follow who inspire you, and tell us what you like most about their work or their way of working.
I recommend Itoki, a graphic artist and photographer whose work I really love. In his drawings, he uses very sharp, angular shapes, and I truly love the characters he creates.
Photographer based in Culiacán, Sinaloa. I started taking photos not too long ago, mainly shooting shows I’ve attended here in my city and in other parts of the country.