1Can you introduce yourself and talk about how you got into photography?
I am the son of a photographer mother and father, born in a small farming community in the interior of Argentina. From a very early age, I was involved with the work in the Darkroom. My father was a photographer who loved to explore by altering the developing solutions. He would change the temperature, or the doses, or add substances such as sugar, etc. So for me, photography is much more than a simple click. Later, as a teenager, I studied photography and film.
2Where did you study photography?
School of Photography and Film in Santa Fe, Argentina.
3Do you remember your first shot? What was it?
I really don't remember. It must have been when I was 5 or 6 years old, with an old Gevaert camera.
4What equipment do you use?
Sony a7rII and a7rIV. Lens: Zeiss 85mm-1.4, Minolta 20mm-2.8, Sony 50mm Macro, Sigma 70-200 and 150-600, 7Artisans 35mm-0,95, and various handmade lenses and filters found at flea markets.
5What do you hope to achieve?
I always look for the surprise that produces emotions that abstract me from reality and always seek to create an alternative reality. I think I am the antipode of the journalistic photographer.
6What compliment inspired/touched you the most?
When I am told that my photographs resemble movie scenes, as I am passionate about the films of the French cinema noir.
7What inspires your unique storytelling?
In the reality of society or of our daily world, which I consider very traumatic, or in stories of people and places, or also in periods of Art and in works of Great Masters.
8What THREE (3) words describe your photography style?
Search, Emotion, and Delivery.
9Congratulations! As the winner of the Global Photography Awards, what does it mean for you and your team to receive this distinction?
Each recognition received implies a greater commitment and self-improvement to achieve new works that manage to move me and move people so that, in this way, we can reflect on what we can still change about ourselves and our world.
10Can you explain a bit about the winning work you entered into the 2024 Global Photography Awards, and why you chose to enter this project?
It is a photograph taken inside an abandoned chocolate factory in Brazil. It is part of an unpublished project. In the work, there is a dialogue between lines, light-darkness, and brightness that create an apparent chaos that takes us on a visual journey accompanied by soft textures that sail in a sea of greenish and rust-brown tones.
11 How has winning an award developed your career?
I gained greater visibility and recognition.
12Name 1-3 photographers who have inspired you.
Man Ray, Ansel Adams, and Gueorgui Pinkhassov.
13What was the best piece of advice you were given starting out, by a mentor or your role model?
The advice my father gave me: explore more and study what you need to look for what you don't know yet.
14What advice would you give someone who would like to become a photographer today?
Let him study what it takes to make the camera his tool & weapon and immerse himself in the search for moving images. Let him explore the countless possibilities offered by editing tools.
15What is your key to success? Any parting words of wisdom?
Search for excitement. Not to lose the joy, and sometimes the anguish, of making the magic click. To be connected with the new technological trends. Investigate what the new great photographers are giving us. Do not lose the capacity for wonder and think about what we can do for our species and our planet.
16How do you stay in that space of being receptive to new information and knowledge?
It is necessary to be always connected with the new ways of science and attentive to the creations that we can capture and adapt to make our photographs.
17Anything else you would like to add to the interview?
I would like to thank the authorities and the judges of this prestigious event for the opportunity we photographers have to show our work.
