About
I am not sure how it all started but I can certainly remember the day I carefully took the tape off a beautiful wrapping paper and stared in awe at the shiny box of the most extreme Christmas gift I could ever imagine back in 2010. Dear friends of mine generously decided to support my passion!
My first professional camera, my dream. I was taking good family, enchanted places and trips photos with a simpler camera. I was always unsatisfied because the photos did not represent the magic of the moment, the beauty of the light, the subtle variations in shade, the textures. My life changed, my photography changed. My new lenses brought clarity and in many transformative ways I started to account for reality in a different manner: I was to decipher splendor.
My ordinary life (don’t we all have one?) is far from ordinary. I can say that mine is very connected to earth. I believe that by consistently creating images, the photographer, the artist and even a circumstantial generator builds a virtual personal register that reveals profound and otherwise undetected aspects of one’s life.
My life oscillates between taking good care of my family, tending my beautiful garden in the northern outskirts of Baltimore, governing the present and future of my beautiful restaurant by the city’s harbor Alma Cocina Latina and traveling as much as possible in order to get the eye excited by the new. As such, much in the way of [French photographer] Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) I have taken thousands of spontaneous photos of family members in all kind of activities and have made numerous books for internal consumption. My garden has helped me keeping connected to life’s cycles. I have of course photographed my personal and my restaurant’s kitchen, the chef’s plates. As my chefs, I believe in a beautiful plate presentation because before any other senses, your first taste is made through your eyes.
Shortly put, my photography is about suggesting the viewer the sense of the infinite in a minuscule detail of a forest mushroom. It is about transforming an old barn wood textures into a visual poem about impermanence, it is about discovering that the world is an orderly place even if our first rapid look shows otherwise. My photography could be anyone’s photography because I don’t feel I am that different from other users of the medium, except maybe that I have my own circumstances and probably I am continuously, almost obsessively looking for the next detail, the next shadow, the next texture, the next wonderful image that will resonate in the viewer and once on the wall, will permanently irradiate a new perception of the marvelous reality that surrounds us. That’s my thing.
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