Tell us a little about yourself and how you got started in photography. What inspired you to start taking pictures?
I don't know if there was an exact moment when I “started” photography, and if there was, I don't remember it. All my life I have liked to portray and document my daily life through photos, I think it is thanks to my mom, because she has always been in charge of having even the smallest record of our existence through photography and not in a professional way or anything like that, just any moment whether it was special or not, there was documentation of our experiences. What I do know is that relatively recently I started to do analog photography, I discovered that it is the purest and most sincere way to portray my own nostalgia. I also love digital to be freer in terms of experimentation, but the immediacy of getting a single photo on a digital camera is so simple (which is not a bad thing at all) but that kind of simplicity is not something I'm looking for. I love the thrill I feel when I send the rolls I've had in storage for a while to be developed, and seeing the photos I've taken on them is reliving every moment. That's right, I'm a slave to nostalgia, I don't know how to exist if something doesn't move me.
Can you tell us about the techniques and equipment that you consider essential to do your photographic work?
One thing I really like about doing the kind of photography I do, is that I don't try too hard for a “good picture”. I mean, if I have to move around or move away or crouch down to get a good photo, to me it means that I don't like what I'm seeing enough, if I do, why am I trying too hard? It may sound a bit sucky, sorry, but my photos are all about portraying my everyday! The perfect frame is what my eyes see, it's when I'm sitting at a table with my friends and we are all living together being ourselves, it's when I see my mom watering her pine trees in the garden, it's when I see my dogs playing with each other, the perfect frame is the simple everyday!
What inspires you when creating new images? Do you have any rituals or creative processes that you follow to find inspiration?
I love to find inspiration in the photos that my mom has stored in a trunk, they are those photos that no one remembered that when you are looking at them everyone gathers to see them while we listen to my mom telling us what was going on in those photos. I find it so beautiful how the photos become memories and topics of conversation. I WANT THAT! I live for my photos to be remembered and for others to assume the emotion and feeling I felt when I took them!
What is the most valuable piece of advice you have received in your career in photography?
Find inspiration anywhere in anything and soak it in.
Recommend us the Instagram account of an artist you follow and tell us what you like most about their work.
Great space to recommend to @saramethystt and her beautiful photography so warm and sensitive that makes you want to feel free in your own skin <33
