My work takes place in New York, Miami, Cuba and Spain, all extended homes of the Latin diaspora operating in a multitude of interlocking halves: expression and comprehension, trauma and escape, private and public, the erotic impulse meeting the familial.
In 1967, my mother was exiled from her place of birth, Cienfuegos, Cuba. This history is the catalyst for my own expressive nature and its quest for liberty. I was born in New York City and have spent the last ten years here, but in between I grew up surfing in Florida. Like surfing, photography is an escape and act of solitude, but it’s also a way of living with the world. The wave breaks and pushes you forward; beyond the surface. My images traverse between a mirror and a window in a continual fantasy working perception into one decisive frame.
I began my career as a self-taught analog cinematographer then realized I had to understand one frame before I could master twenty-four frames per second. Working in book form imitates film-making on paper: it is an unfolding, an extension of the inner, and a visual authorship, embodied.
All portfolios on this website are long-term works in progress.