Since a very young age I’ve been fascinated with the concept of communities. With the richness and diversity that manifests at every corner of the world, regardless of beliefs, ideology, politics and borders; communities somehow despite the overtake of a mainstream culture manage to keep themselves authentic through the characters that inhabit these spaces.

 

Photography has been my language of choice to capture and share the beauty of diversity. Through my work I’ve come to realize that we make sense of our surroundings by the sign of human life that we can identify within them. With my camera I choose to capture the stories of characters from very different backgrounds that can turn the frame into a whole world.

 

I’ve been lucky enough to grow up in one of the most diverse countries of the world. Mexico is a country with too many sides, a hispanic and indigenous heritage that manages to survive despite the inevitable influences of mainstream western culture. The survival of these Pilars of the Mexican identify have become an essential part of my photographies, in every new encounter I find a richness that cannot be replicated or staged, I find truth.