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P O R T F O L I O

I always work on themes, I actually keep several on the stove at once. I like to think that I specialize in versatility, it stimulates my creativity and gives me a sense of accomplishment. This approach is maybe against the main stream of the contemporary art world. Many of the successful new breed of photographers have for the most part become specialists. Sometime having a broad vision can be an handicap for someone ‘s career but for me I cannot get stuck doing the same thing over and over. I like to explore new grounds and I constantly work on ideas, producing essays, photographing people and the female body.

I guess my choice of themes fluctuates between dream and reality, between reflection and emotion and also a bit of fascination with transformation. It is the transformation, transition and change in people, bodies, myself and our environment that I am after. Transformation has always driven my work, from my nude series to the street scenes of Nicaragua and China. Even in my Diptych series which is a personal visual odyssey, a journal unveiling my photographic interests, an intense curiosity of some moments in my life brought up through the duality of two images.

 

   
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