Hi, I'm from Barcelona but I've been living in the countryside for a few years now. I'm interested in photography as a means to tell stories; not so much as a way to mirror reality but as a way to get away from it.
I bought my first camera in my early twenties, although the kind of photography I do now is relatively new to me.
I don't have any kind of photographic training; everything has been self-taught.
A family portrait with my mother's Rollei camera.
A Fujifilm X-T3 with a 16-55 lens or a 35 for portraits.
I want to devote myself to photography, my true passion.
What makes me happiest is when someone tells me that my photos have moved them and touched something deep inside. Undoubtedly, that is for me the most important purpose in art.
Inspiration comes from many places but cinema and the countryside, where I live, is what inspires me the most.
Dreamlike, feminine, disturbing.
It is a great honor for me that such an expert jury, from such an important worldwide contest as The New York Photography Awards, recognizes my work and decides to award me Gold and Silver in two categories.
Some people around me showed concerned because they thought that I had a twin sister who wanted to take her life and had wanted me to photograph the last day of her life, but it’s all fiction. If something like that had really happened, I’m not sure I’d been able to do this with such ease. As I said, I love to invent stories through my photographs, it’s all fiction.
Winning awards always helps, first because it reaffirms you in what you are doing and because they give you worldwide visibility, which you might not otherwise have.
My main source of inspiration comes more from cinema than photography and my absolute muse is David Lynch, although I could cite countless photographers that I love. Three examples: Diane Arbus, Joel-Peter Witkin, Ren Hang.
Whenever I take a photo, I remember a piece of advice from a very prestigious photographer and friend of mine with a very long career behind him: “Even if you shoot in digital, you have to get used to the idea that you are shooting in analog and that the photo you take is the only photo and it is the good one.”
Let you look deep inside yourself and forget about trying to be who you are not.
True success lies in doing what you want and being able to express yourself without limits of any kind.
Being alert all the time is important, not only in art but in all aspects of life.
Ximena Bares, a talented photographer from Spain, brings the stories in her head to life through her shutters and cameras.
Interested in portrait photography? Have a look at this interview with Susanne Middelberg from Netherlands and her viewpoint on portraits here.