Documentary Photographer | Visual Artist | My work exists between document and rupture, between what is observed and what is lived.
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For several years, I have documented the lives of communities in Mexico through documentary photography. I went through an important personal experience that led me to create a new way of thinking and feeling. Now, starting from the final artwork, I began intervening in my printed images that I have captured over the years—faces, traditions, and real life in towns across Mexico. What I do now, and what I truly enjoy, is abstract expressionism.
Where do you find inspiration?I am inspired by the lives of people and what they are able to create with their hands—such as mezcal masters, those who watch over the fields, and those who witness the growth of the milpa and the cornfields. Real people who live in the mountains. I am also interested in the pre-Hispanic world.
What would you do with $25,000?I have in mind to turn the prize into something even greater by creating a project called Photo Kids Project.Through this initiative,I want to introduce the world of photography to children from Indigenous communities in Oaxaca,Mexico.The project aims to foster new perspectives from the younger generations—the children of farmers—by documenting the daily lives of their parents and their own experiences,with the purpose of planting a new vision in the world about the beauty of caring for the land
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