Personal Voice

The reason why I chose photography is because it is the act of taking pictures for sentimental reasons, as a hobby or keeping informed with new events. Similarly, taking pictures help us to stay in touch with past events, thereby enabling you to appreciate history. My interest for photography started back in 2003, after the death of my grandmother. I was a little bit young but still I recalled all the good moments I shared with her, with the help of photographs I came across of her and me when I was still a kid. Behind every picture that I take there is a story, what I want to express or what I want people to feel. Photography is an art, simply what I want others to see through my lens, to feel what I felt for taking that particular picture and also to introduce them to my world of escapism. A picture is worth a thousand words. What is expressed or understood by looking at the picture varies from person to person.

The above picture I took at the beginning of this year was a photo shoot I did with my girlfriend. It was easier for me to get what I really wanted out of her, as she knows exactly what I am looking for when I shoot, of course depending on the concept. I was really influenced by the fantasy painter Boris Vallejo, depicting a world of fantasy where one would loose him or herself in the painting. For the picture, I wanted to share that same feeling. The model seems lost, looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, she expresses a feeling of hope, expecting a better future at the same time being sad. In photography, it is amazing how you can get different feelings out of a single picture.

This other picture I took from one of my photojournalism class about poverty. That day it was unbelievable to see to how some people living at the threshold of poverty be really welcoming, allowing strangers into their homes to take pictures of them, offering them refreshments and have a few talk. The reason behind the picture is simply to show that for a kid no matter in which living condition he or she is a simple thing can make him or her happy. Fore we say a child embodies innocence.