As a photographer I'm touched by human relationships, emotions and connections.

 

I’m inspired by all the love, compassion, resilience, and sense of humor, that go into raising kids; the hard work moms and dads do; the adorably crazy things that kids do while they know no shame or measure and by our imperfections, our uniqueness, our true selves and real lives. 

 

I aim to capture those special moments that flourish every day in the family we have woven and that we don’t want to forget; all the ordinary gestures that become extraordinary when you look at them either because they mean so much, or because they’re so yours, or because they change so fast.

 

Yes, I have this fantasy that I can stop time. There’s so much to love and learn from in our everyday life, but we’re such busy humans, we can only perceive and remember so much, so I take pictures to freeze time, to slow down.

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A bit of history

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I was born and raised in Venezuela, a land where people laugh and work hard in an eternal summer. My heart speaks Spanish but it’s filled with wanderlust.

 

In Venezuela I became a psychologist and in my previous life, I used to work as a family therapist. After doing this passionately for 10 years, I was in need of looking at the other side of family relationships. The beginnings, the illusion of new starts, the chaos that makes sense, the optimism.

 

Being a photo hobbyist, I grabbed a camera as a way to explore this brighter side of things, when a turn of destiny (romantic for “my husband’s job”) took us to Japan for two years. This came to be one of the most extraordinary experiences in my life. I had the opportunity to explore a whole new world, where I knew nobody and nobody knew me, camera in hand, at my own leisure and pace. It gave me the chance to think of myself as other than the “persona” I had built. 

 

In Japan, I decided to pursuit photography as a career. There also, our daughter Hana was born. As I became a mother I started to feel that urge to capture our moments as a family and understood what “growing too fast” means.

 

It just made sense to start using a camera to look inside relationships from a different perspective and to try to stop time and keep instants of my family, of your family, so we can remember later. 

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