5 ideas to clarify about me as photographer
Sometimes certain positions and quoted phrases cause confusion
AM I A DINOSAUR?
Despite someone has a certain idea of me I am not a dinosaur against technology. I realized some books made with photo realized with smartphones. I don’t know that many photographers doing this. At the same time I have clear the difference between physical and computational photography. I have my preference that is a real camera and a real lens. Currently I am using a small mirrorless where I can’t work using the zone focusing technique. I believe the content, the ideas mark the difference. Currently I prefer to work in semi automatic exposure. With my reflex cameras I use the back button focus that makes the experience similar to zone focus, just automatic.
I believe that photography can continue as before. At the same time I have an idea that many of the masters of the past would be thrilled to be able to have different sensitivities simultaneously in the same camera. I love the OVF on my DSLRs but I am used to work also without a viewfinder with a mirroless camera.
I was one of the first professionals (in 2010) to welcome the mirrorless cameras.
DIGITAL OR FILM PHOTOGRAPHER?
No doubt on this: I am a digital photographer. I am by professional training and my career as a photographer says it. But that doesn't mean I don't shoot film. I have known and done photography since I was 10 years old: this means 1985. In color, having a trusted laboratory develop it and yes, I have never developed a roll of film on my own.
I enjoy film photography. I shoot film, when I do, more for personal pleasure than anything else. Also because I don't count with a decent scanning system. Due to the price increase I stopped for a while. I would like to go back to film photography. I also bought a professional Canon SLR that I should set up and work with. But at the moment I am focused on my work and my work is essentially digital.
HAVE I STOPPED EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY?
No, in absolute. I continue to do this for private clients. And I'm also open to new projects with new girls, but I am more selective respect to the past. In the years from 2013 to 2015 it was crazy: I was able to photograph 10 girls a month for the MEXICANA editorial project. This allowed me to do a lot of erotic and portrait photography work, but it also exposed me to problems with some girls due to an underlying madness that made everything a little more difficult. The environment of erotic and nude photography is able to introduce you to very professional people but also everything else. And everything else can also mean finding people who make the professional experience difficult if not dangerous.
I enjoy to make erotic photography. I think it's an area of photography in which I quite recognize myself and in which I see ample creative freedom. If you are a girl in Mexico and you are interested to work with me, just drop me an email.
DID I GIVE UP JOURNALISM?
Yesterday one of the agencies I work with in wishing me birthday wishes told me that she would like to come back and see some uploads from me. This should give the measure of how I feel a little out of certain work dynamics. I have a problem: today's journalism has become responding to a single narrative, convenient to the globalist system. And I don't want to do that. I don't want to be part of that system that I fight. Dealing with topics such as the new normal and global warming is to be on the side of lies and manipulation to observe an agenda. i am not that kind of photographer, I am not that kind of person.
I feel I can continue to be free by continuing to do everything I've always done and, therefore, also documentary photography, but without submitting to certain dynamics. Anyone interested in my work knows where to find me. But I avoid serving the Fabian Society and the Open Society. Since 2020, mass manipulation has surged to facilitate the 2030 agenda. I'm not participating. I at best fight all of this.
WHY NOW I PREFER TO TALK ABOUT ART REFERRED TO MY WORK?
In the past I have always tried to avoid calling myself an artist. I used photojournalist or craftsman to deviate from the idea of identifying myself as an artist which seemed excessive and self-indulgent. But in fact my essence and daily life is characterized by the presence of art. My family has several artists and I have always lived in a world and a lifestyle that recognizes itself in art. I have exhibited throughout my career in galleries around the world. My publications and the entire workflow are dominated by artistic thinking. Street photography itself is reflected in certain determinations and intentions. Prints and books, but also what I propose to my clients as a commercial photographer is dominated by art.
I count with clients that are art collectors. They pay me to create special books and prints. I owe them respect too. It is not only a personal speech but also a commitment that I have with those who reward me.
I am a visual artist. This awareness sublimates the approach and has given me back a new way of living life itself and what I most love to do: photographing without conditioning other than those derived from my feelings and my creativity. I believe that art today is a refuge from observing dynamics that lead to the manipulation of reality. When art has to do with reality depends only on me. I have now understood this and therefore I no longer have anything to fear and I am not hiding: I am an artist.
CONCLUSIONS
It's not even a question of definitions. The important thing is who I am and what I do. Everyone is able to see what I have been doing for more than a decade. For me, it's mostly about honesty. First of all with myself and then with others.
