Striving for the Sublime
For the last 20 years, I have used photography as a way to engage with the world. Through long-term projects and ongoing exploration, my work focuses on what lies beneath the surface, moments, places, and people that reveal themselves slowly over time.
Embedded in many worlds, cultures, and traditions, I have been naturally driven and attracted to extreme journeys, remote places, tribes, and threatened cultures, obsessed by untold realities, rare captured moments, simple but singular realities, and yes.... striving for the sublime.
Life Long Search
My work has taken shape through a series of long-term documentary projects carried out in some of the world’s most remote regions. From the Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan to the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador, the rainforests of Borneo, I have focused on communities living at the edge of visibility. In collaboration with organizations such as Barefoot College, The Nature Conservancy, I have documented social and environmental transformations across India, Nepal, Asia, Central & South America. These projects include extensive work on climate change & indigenous communities
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Awards
My work has been recognized across both photography and film, with international awards and selections reflecting a practice that moves between still and moving images. In photography, I was awarded 1st place in the National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, and my work has been honored by institutions such as PDN, Applied Arts, and LUX, with multiple distinctions including a Grand Prize.
In film, my projects have been selected and awarded at festivals in Mexico City, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Toronto, and Paris. Recent work has received Best Long Documentary, as well as awards for Best Cinematography and Best Music Score. Earlier, Wakhan was selected among the Best of Show at the Étonnants Voyageurs Film Festival and received Best 1st or 2nd Documentary at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois.
Exhibitions
I have exhibited my photographic work internationally in museums, galleries and cultural institutions. These exhibitions have brought together long-term documentary projects and fine art photography, creating spaces where stories from some of the world's most remote communities could be experienced beyond the printed page.
Major exhibitions include Arsenal Contemporary Art in Toronto and Montreal, the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Milk Gallery in New York, and The Impossible Project Gallery in New York. My work has also been presented at exhibitions and cultural events in Geneva, London, Paris, Mexico City and Montreal.
Whether shown in a gallery, a museum or a public institution, each exhibition is an invitation to slow down, reconnect with humanity and reflect on the stories that shape our world.
INAH
Selected to become part of the official collection of the INAH — the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia of Mexico — as part of the institution’s 85th anniversary commemorations.
A profound honor to enter the archives of an organization dedicated to preserving the historical, cultural, and anthropological memory of Mexico.
