“I start with a distance. I was born in 1989, in the south of Chile, almost 500 kilometers from the capital. In such a centralist country, living in a province is not easy, but I had a small (or great) luck: my parents worked in an advertising agency and I had to accompany them often. Photography seemed almost like magic to me. I would see the outline of a model that ended in the existence of a poster printed on the street. Then I decided to start. I was a teenager and I liked to take pictures of my friends in different places in my city. From those photos came exhibitions and the definitive desire to study photography, so I went to the capital because there was nothing similar in the south. At first I didn’t have money for a digital camera, so I did all my homework in analog. But then I became so fascinated that I could no longer do fashion editorials in digital. They were not conventional editorials: my strategy was to set up cinematic scenarios with unusual characters, instead of focusing on the brand. This led me to publish in magazines like Nylon, ID and Vice; and also to work in one of the most important photography studios in Latin America, creating campaigns for brands like Nike, Levi`s and Pepsi; and then I started to photograph different musicians for record labels like Universal UK and Chile or Sony Spain and US, and to work in music videos. Besides doing editorials and advertising, I also consider the dimension of photography as a unique and tangible object. That’s why I specialized in chemical photography in New York, where I learned techniques such as wet collodion, cyanotype and salted paper. Today, my professional life mixes all that I mentioned: I do editorials in analog with friends, I work with musicians, videos for social media, I study new techniques and disciplines that make photography a unique object and -besides advertising campaigns- I teach fashion photography and cyanotype in art schools. Ah. And I almost forgot. Now I live in Madrid, my favorite city, more than ten thousand kilometers away from the south where I was born.”