WHO I AM
Big question. I am the moment, space, and time. I am someone flowing like water in a river—sometimes like lava crossing fields, other times like the breeze between our bodies. I am what I am. I have never been what I didn’t want to be.
I was an angel,
Countless times a demon.
In that whirlwind of self-destruction, the only feather left from the wing of that angel saved me from eternal hell.
That feather was called motivation—something to get up for, something that unified my being, that taught me to love both the good and bad experiences, something that made me value each day, to appreciate the smallest things and also the grandeur of our surroundings.
Photography discovered me, embraced me, and saved me. I traded uncontrolled vices for one that balances and keeps me in harmony. Forty years have passed, living off you and you off me—some days in purgatory, but many more in paradise. The perfect combination?
Perhaps, for now, until I lose the key and remain in paradise forever.
I was born in 1961. At nine, I lost my father, an event that shaped my adolescence. I finished school without knowing what to do. I studied two years of engineering, then left to explore linear, architectural, landscape, and nude drawing, as well as a color expression course. I spent a month learning photographic lab techniques to apply to drawing, and it was in that lab that I became hooked on photography—love at first development.
I began with landscapes, and through life’s circumstances, I discovered advertising photography. It has supported me from 1987 to this day, though I always continue photographing landscapes and experimenting with diverse themes.
1979Finished school
1981-82Studied Engineering
1983Various drawing studies
1984Began photography
1985Discovered advertising photography
1986Studied advertising
1987Opened my first studio
1992Opened my second studio
1992Traveled by motorcycle photographing Peru
1993First solo exhibit, Atenas Paracas
1993Expedition and group exhibit, Tambopata Candamo
1994Participated as logistics support for the expedition and documentary Tumbes: Forests and Mangroves for Canal 5
1995Participated as logistics support for the expedition and documentary The Sea and the Gods for Panamericana Televisión
1996Group exhibit Nosotros featuring painting, sculpture, and photography
I have collaborated with various newspapers and magazines and contributed to the publication of numerous books about Peru.
Since 1987, I have run my own studio, specializing in advertising photography for a wide variety of clients, while always taking photos of different subjects to unwind from advertising work.
