As Jorge Luis Borges used to say: “Art is not what makes us feel like we have discovered something new, but what makes us feel like we have remembered something important that we had forgotten.” And this is what I do in my work—I convey a deep feeling of happiness or nostalgia to people; perhaps I awaken a memory in the person who observes my work. Whenever I can achieve this, I feel quite happy. The best outcome is when they remember one of my pieces some time after having first observed it.

I think one of my achievements has been developing the ability to photograph people on the street, what they call “street photography”, without ever creating a set; I have never retouched reality, nobody ever sees things in the same way as you do.

My photographs have been exhibited at the Cordoba Biennial in Veracruz, at the Museum of Modern Art for the México Vivo Foundation, at the South Hampton Art Fair, at the Bijoux exhibition at the Franz Mayer Museum, at the Open Gallery of the Fences of Chapultepec Forest, SIVAM, in several editions of Zona Maco Arte Contemporáneo, and more recently, in the section curated by Johann Mergenthaler in Maco Foto Solo. I have made seven individual exhibitions in different locations. Recently, my ‘Boca Roca’ series was acquired by the Casa Malca Hotel in Tulum to present a specific installation within its art collection.

The cameras I use are analog; my favorite one is a medium format Contax camera, and a Nikon F100 that have stayed with me throughout my career.

Digital photography has allowed the eradication of many paradigms around the craft, as it provides an automatic method, plus a simpler and more practical scope for any photographer. It has allowed immediacy and simplicity to exist in the photographic technique, without questioning the photographer’s technical or artistic capacity. However, in my opinion, an important part of the artistic aspect of it has been lost: the magic of the dark room, of touching the paper, of the surprise and excitement when the image that you have longed to see appears in the trays under dim lighting, to smell the chemicals, to feel the photograph and choose the images in the contact sheets—the closeness and relationship you establish with your picture during those working hours in the dark room. Analog photographs are infinitely more thoughtful when taken, more calculated, more careful. The result of an analog photograph has texture, it has a soul. Nowadays I only work with this method.

My greatest satisfaction is going places where I have never been before, where I am amazed by what I see, what I find. It’s a story of my own without a specific process; I let it flow spontaneously.

Photography is a mirror of my reality—one which I see and feel: what I think, what rises curiosity in me, anguish, desire, interest, or happiness. Photography is a reality that I want to share, and that I want to keep with me. The pictures I take are portraits of my time and the history of my life; they are the product of an intimate process in which I find a connection between the images I observe and something that lives inside of me. “Nothing is ever the same as they said it was, it’s what I’ve never seen before that I recognize”- Diane Arbus.

A few years ago I did some work using painting as support to award three-dimensionality to my craft. This technique does not define my work; it is only an expression within it. I think all arts can be complemented. In Contemporary Art everything is valid, but I always return to photography in its unique and original form.

I have never allowed myself to plan anything. Life surprises me with images; that is what life is made of— flashes of curiosity, cultures, faces, emotions, so many different forms of the human being’s existence, the life of animals, of nature. And this is what I capture. I make a portrait of a person as well as an animal: in search of their souls. You must let life surprise you; this is the magic that photography gifts me with.

If we understand by democratization the massive or popular diffusion of photographic art in contemporary society, the answer is yes, and I am very happy about that, because art is for everyone.

There is no common theme in my series. My artistic process is the same, only that it manifests itself in different ways. I almost do not plan my creation; I work every day wherever I am, hoping that fate will put things in their place.