Interviews

"If it is absolutely necessary for art or theater to serve any purpose, it will be to teach people that there are activities that are useless and that it is essential that they exist."

-Eugène Ionesco

  • All Creatures Great and Small

    All Creatures Great and Small

    My grandma is visiting for the Lunar New Year, and I am documenting her recipes with illustrations. My sketchbook is currently full of scallion pancakes, kimchi, and dumplings.

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    It’s been really fun shooting live performances on film and interviewing artists and organisers. I also do work covering protests and events that happen in my city.

  • Velvet Abyss

    Velvet Abyss

    I’m interested in how images can inhabit space, how sequences are built, and how a book can function almost like a structure—something you enter rather than scroll through.

  • Visual Dessert

    Visual Dessert

    There’s a quote by Susan Sontag that says: “To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.” While her statement is completely true, photography for me has been a way of savoring what surrounds me, not excluding it-

  • Good Time

    Good Time

    I think each project can be a great teacher if you listen carefully. Working with large-scale entities is always something I find enlightening, as you do get to see the inner workings and behind the scenes of companies that shape the current discourse and economy.

  • A Place to Return To

    A Place to Return To

    I enjoy working with error, with time, and with chance—slower, more experimental processes where each image becomes almost an event.

  • DNA

    DNA

    I am planning to travel and document the lives of people who still live close to their traditions and to nature, and through this process, to understand them and myself more deeply.

  • I Contain Multitudes

    I Contain Multitudes

    These specific works—the pencil drawings and the woodblocks—carry more texture. They are more labor-intensive and require patience, repetition, and resilience.

  • Imbunche

    Imbunche

    Around that time, it became a creature that inhabited my home, whose cloth-covered gaze I couldn’t escape in any corner of my room. Something familiarly melancholic made me want to photograph it in its everyday coexistence.

  • Smiling at Strangers

    Smiling at Strangers

    Every time I hear that someone used to be vegan but gave up, I lose a bit more faith in humanity.

  • The Return

    The Return

    You have to keep shooting as often as you can to stay inspired. If you keep practicing photography, you’ll be able to get out of the rut and find inspiration and motivation.

  • Corre y suelta a los perros

    Corre y suelta a los perros

    I observed how the music settled into people’s hearts and understood what the most compelling order was—so they wouldn’t let go of our hands and could move lightly and effortlessly through the journey of Corre y suelta a los perros.

  • Nailed It

    Nailed It

    You have to learn to fully live an experience, even while being far from love. Love is everywhere—perhaps in a more ephemeral form, but it is still love. The process is truly slow, and you have to enjoy it.

  • The Fullness of the Last Breath

    The Fullness of the Last Breath

    I have been working on visually documenting patron saint festivals, Day of the Dead traditions, and the lives of working women from different towns in Mexico City and its outskirts, accompanied by report-style texts for publication in media outlets.

  • Another City for Another Life

    Another City for Another Life

    I don’t have a conceptual approach to art. Almost provocatively, I would say I have no ideas. In reality, I try not to have any. I would like to simply make a image randomly, throwing pieces of paper onto a blank sheet.

  • British Winter

    British Winter

    I’m drawn to the collaborative nature of lifestyle, portrait and brand projects, and the process of developing ideas together. Turning an idea into visuals that evoke feelings and tell a story is what I find most fulfilling.

  • Dream Freely

    Dream Freely

    I love movement, discovery, and trying new things. As a photographer, I’m constantly working on different and diverse projects, which suits my personality perfectly.

  • Childhood Nostalgia

    Childhood Nostalgia

    In this series of paintings, I recreate family photographs and experiences from my childhood. I represent memories as something subjective, idealized, and gradually losing clarity over time.

  • Memory of the Everyday

    Memory of the Everyday

    I aim to create a personal archive that allows me to show—and show myself—a vast and diverse Mexico, through spontaneous stories that emerge from the simplest moments of life.

  • Ready… Set… GO!

    Ready… Set… GO!

    I enjoy shooting portraits in everyday environments, trying to convey the emotions the subject might feel, and I’m working on building this into a series.

  • SAMI

    SAMI

    In general, since I produce and create every detail myself, I’ve gotten used to not depending creatively on anyone. It’s something that’s hard for me to let go of, but I’m learning little by little.

  • Understanding Oneself Better

    Understanding Oneself Better

    I feel most like myself at sunset. I think sunset light is what attracts me most visually. The world around me becomes more vibrant and I feel more present. It’s my favorite time to take photos.

  • Wide Angle Smile

    Wide Angle Smile

    Landscapes are my jam. I have been lucky enough to source some legendary Kodak Aerochrome film in both 35mm and 120 formats. I have shot two test rolls so far, and plan to shoot more in the next few years.

  • Grey

    Grey

    I’ve spent years writing for myself about this topic: how different works of art (literature, film, photography, music, street art) have changed the narratives around violence in Mexico and have become vehicles for protest and memory.

  • Let Error Lose Its Weight

    Let Error Lose Its Weight

    I would love to exhibit my work in a solo show, and more than ever I’m thinking about how it could scale up and take on a different dimension. I dream of giant sculptures, inflatables, and murals.

  • Aligned

    Aligned

    Setting the frame, adjusting the light, listening to the quiet before pressing the shutter. It has given me the distance to see myself differently and to slowly learn to love and accept myself as a whole. These are moments when I feel aligned.

  • 201

    201

    Unlike other albums, this one deals with topics that still hurt or worry us. The process was very fast, and the album reflects our lives, which never stop and are always changing. The songs are like that too.

  • Winterschlaf

    Winterschlaf

    I’m a birder and I like documenting my sightings—they become even more valuable if I manage to capture them on my 35mm film. Insects, flowers, and plants, and their colors: I believe that if we can capture their beauty, we can help promote their conservation.

  • Certainty Dissolved

    Certainty Dissolved

    I’ve felt out of place in moments when certainty dissolved. When projects shifted, relationships suddenly changed tone, and what I thought I understood no longer held.

  • Los nombres de mi padre

    Los nombres de mi padre

    Nació de la idea de un personaje que emprende una investigación en torno a un amigo de sus padres desaparecido hace muchos años. También nació de una curiosidad por reconstruir la historia del proyecto original de Ciudad Satélite. Y en cierto sentido también nació del hecho de que mi padre se estaba muriendo en Veracruz…