What pieces or projects have you been working on lately?
Organic and/or exaggerated food aesthetics. Shine, highlights, sparkles, reflections.
What did you learn (or unlearn) while working on them?
To play with moments, light, and different situations; to understand timing in order to control precise shutter speeds.
What words, ideas or emotions were going through your head?
Juxtaposition.
Were there any conversations, movies, music, or books that made their way into that work?
A lot of poetry and jazz.
What's been the most difficult thing you've faced recently in your creative process?
Not having full time to dedicate to it.
What is your favorite restaurant and what do you recommend we order?
Tintoquee, in Puerto Vallarta — the tomato with koji rice purée and mint. WOW!
If your life were a movie this month, what would it be called and who would write the soundtrack?
New Ways, Mica Levi.
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.
Regis Casillas: The ability to create stories and handle them flawlessly in film production.
Arjuna Valero: Creativity, skill, and spontaneity.
Carolina Torres: : Style, aesthetic sensibility, and visual art.
Observer of light, time, and freshly made tacos. Through photography—especially film—I capture moments that celebrate the imperfect, the real, and the human.