About Me

Photography wasn’t in my blood or on my horizon early in life, so I wasn’t as many fortunate people who know from the get go what they want to do with the rest of their lives. Mine was trial and error, but all paths have brought me to where I am. An interest soon became a passion, and here I am now, enjoying every moment I have a chance to do it.

Born to a mixed cultural background, my father from the U.S. and my mother from Bolivia, I was brought up to enjoy and appreciate both sides of my heritage. Shortly after finishing high school in Fairfax, Virginia, there was an internal calling for proximity to my South American roots I soon tried to fulfill by moving to La Paz, Bolivia towards the end of 2000. One of the advantages that enabled me to adapt there to the new culture was that my mother encouraged me to learn Spanish from an early age. Thanks to her, I am bilingual in English and Spanish, able to speak, read and write fluently in both.

While briefly visiting my father back in the states, I received as a gift my first camera because of my vague interest in the art, and finally had a chance to take a crack at it. I studied and received my Psychology Degree, but once a chance to start an internship in photojournalism arose I tentatively took the opportunity. Since then, I have worked mainly in photojournalism in its wide range of subject matter, forging my knowledge in as much variety.

My trajectory has taken me from the photography agency APG Noticias (Agencia de Prensa Gráfica) (2009-2013), to the newspapers La Razón (2013-2014) and Página Siete (2014) all in La Paz (Bolivia). I have also collaborated on occasions with agencies such as Associated Press (AP), Reuters, and Agence France-Presse (AFP), and even foreign newspapers such as Mercurio from Chile. Currently I live in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia) and am a freelance photographer, collaborating with APG Noticias, and have done so with local newspapers El Día and El Deber on occasions, while also doing photography productions not related to photojournalism. This has, undoubtedly, given me an edge so as to work with a wide array of subjects and situations.