My first contact with photography was around 1983. I remember sneaking into our living room to look at the cover of 'Diario 16', a magazine that came with the newspaper my parents bought every Sunday. That Sunday the cover was a photograph of a man, naked, embracing a fully clothed woman. That photograph really captivated me. Perhaps because of that private moment captured in the photograph, a moment so little seen among couples at the time and especially unnoticed in my environment. Maybe it was the nudity. I'm not sure what the real reason was, but I kept coming back to look at the photograph day after day. The man was John Lennon, the woman, Yoko Ono, and the photographer, Annie Leibovitz.
Black and white has left its mark on me, due to its ability to show raw emotions despite the fact that their time makes them timeless. The purest white and the darkest black are more than enough to fill my photographic world. It is in this black and white where I feel most comfortable. As Cristina García Rodero said “Colour ties you to reality, black and white allows you to fly”.
In terms of genres, without a doubt, social photography and journalistic photography are, for me, the most exciting and interesting. They perfectly capture and frame humanity. I don't take this type of photography but I consider it photography in its purest form. They capture human nature in its most honest and raw form, with no frills. My main influences are Robert Capa, Bruce Davison, W. Eugene Smith, Josej K
