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ABOUT MYSELF

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Someone once asked me about my experience in the world of photography.

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The answer is simple: I've been taking photos for over forty years. I was born in 1962 and began my career in 1983. Photography has more weight in my life than anything else. (Except my family.)

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I see almost everything as if it were a photograph. I wake up and go to sleep thinking about photography, and it's great.

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Photography for me is an escape valve, sometimes to get away from reality, and others to get into.

 

The main issue of this occupation is the observation and the creativity, then get as deeper as you may get into the technical aspects of the craft in order to get good results, and finally the most important thing for me is to generate a feeling to the observer.

 

Once I heard someone, during an exhibition, that my pictures were scaring... Well, I was glad about the comment, this person didn't walk away from just another photo exhibition, he went away with a feeling.

 

The photos most have their own language. They must speak for themselves about joy, happiness, sorrow, pain, distress or whatever you need to capture on your frame.

 

WORK â€‹PROCESS

The way I work is basically by observation, I´m always looking for something that fits into the portfolio Im working.

 

I always have two or three ideas on my mind, and that keeps me busy and focus on what I need, I never leave home without  a camera, I read a lot, I do photo workshops and they are an enormous field for feedback, I also sketch and draw my images before I take the picture.

 

I work on handmade sets in my studio, but I also like to discover things outside. I'm always observing and searching, open to any event or situation that creates a good image.

 

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Busco objetos inanimados, a menudo abandonados o en desuso; piezas que para muchos no son más que basura o fierros viejos, pero que para mí poseen una vida propia. Han atravesado transformaciones marcadas por sus dueños, por el clima y por el paso del tiempo, una serie de cambios que, desde mi perspectiva, los convierte en algo digno de ser retratado, antes de que continúen su inevitable proceso de degradación hasta finalmente desaparecer.
JMV




I seek inanimate objects, often abandoned or discarded—things that many would consider trash or mere scraps of metal, yet to me they hold a life of their own. They have undergone transformations shaped by their owners, by the weather, and by time itself—a series of changes that, in my view, make them worthy of being photographed before they continue their inevitable process of decay and ultimately vanish.
JMV

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