I create to witness the world honestly—holding onto fleeting moments, giving silence a voice, and making people feel what words often can’t.
You decide who will appear in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their work at The Art of Elysium's Salon!
Documentary Photography. Capturing quiet, fleeting moments that hold memory, emotion, and truth.
Where do you find inspiration?The world inspires me in everyday life, people, streets, silence, and the unnoticed moments that carry emotion and truth.
What would you do with $25,000?I would invest on my colleges for sure, on my family, also on my documentary and photojournalism projects, travel to tell underreported stories, print my work, and build of my work for exhibition and publication. Inspire the next generation that humans can be humans.
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