Bio

I was born in Madrid in 1964. My first contact with photography came in childhood: at home there was a small black and white darkroom, cameras, and enthusiasm. That last one is all you need to take pictures; without it, or with too little, you end up hanging up the camera.

I studied Philosophy and, after years on a grant, had to decide whether my future lay on the academic path or whether I would turn my hobby into a profession. Chance and will chose the second.

I have always worked as a freelance photographer for different publications. I have never specialised in any photographic genre, and this time purely by choice: photographing is a way of seeing, and seeing knows nothing of genres and should not be reduced to them.

I like any camera, from a mobile phone to a large format one, and I have been lucky enough to work with them all. When I started out there was only film and yet now it seems as if it never existed. What I like about film is its sobriety: it is photography in its purest state, because it captures the instant with no immediate playback — the image stays in the memory.

What fascinates me about the pixel, contradictory as it sounds, is the possibility, the obligation, of seeing the image almost at the same time as the shot: lost memory is replaced by a powerful, fast machine for learning photography. But for me there is only one photography, many photographers, and their pictures teaching us different ways of seeing what surrounds us.