Shot on assignment for The Economist’s 1843 Magazine on January 2022 “César Ortigoza looked out over the Arizona desert and sighed ‘It’s not easy out there,’ he said. He is the co-founder of Armadillos group, a volunteer organisation which helps families find the bodies of the many migrants who disappear in the US-Mexico borderlands. Since […]
Shot on assignment for The New York Times, June 2022 The colourful hand-painted signs decorating iconic Mexico City street food stalls are disappearing as a new law is set to unify their appearance. Through a series of photographs of those still decorated, details of their distinctive lettering, punchy and often absurd characters and the costumers […]
For the campaign “Here and Now for Epilepsy” from UCB I was asked by LLyC Barcelona to photograph and direct four video capsules portraying different realities of living with epilepsy, which echoed real stories of patients and medical staff. Sharing some of the photographs and here one of the video capsules.
In the bustling expanse of Mexico City’s streets, a team of dedicated ajustadores bravely maneuvers through the chaos. These agents on wheels, armed with Honda RR 600cc motorbikes, navigate hazardous roads and volatile situations to provide swift assistance to those involved in motor accidents. Done for Zurich Insurance Group 150 anniversary, the project highlights the […]
Shot on assignment for Le Monde M Magazine, July 2019 Known to the locals as “El Cerrito” the stunning Villa Planchart was designed by Gio Ponti at the top of a hill overlooking Caracas in the 50s. High oil prices had put the country’s economy as one of the strongest and most prosperous in South […]
Shot on assignment for The Economist 1843 Magazine, December 2019 “Cuba was a refuge, both from the past and from a feared-for future.” In 1943 Marcel Feigel’s parents, both Orthodox Jews, were sent to Nazi concentration camps. He lived hidden with different Christian families until the war ended and his mom, astonishingly, returned to Belgium […]
Shot on assignment for The California Sunday Magazine, September 2019 Te espero como la lluvia de mayo. I wait for you like the rain of May — a popular refrain among farmers in Central America, where the first rainfall in May long signaled the end of the dry season. But over the past decade, in what is known as the […]
Shot for Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal, April 2018 Rising violence and instability in the Northern Triangle of Central America – Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador – is forcing hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers to cross Mexico on their quest to reach the United States. Powerful criminal gangs control the route, and […]
In 2016, I visited agro ecological farm Naturaleza Viva in Argentina for the Gaia Foundation as part of a large-scale initiative that would become the book and exhibition We Feed the World. Bringing together 300 portraits of regenerative farmers by renowned photographers, it was showcased in over 50 exhibitions, from London’s Southbank Centre to strawbale […]
In 2016, I went to La Guajira in Colombia with WaterAid to document the situation for local people and the organisation’s projects in the region. Situated at the northern tip of Colombia, La Guajira department is a dry stretch of land with Venezuela to the east and the Caribbean Sea to the north. About 50 per […]
Shot on assignment for M, le Magazine du Monde, February 2018 “To get to Tapachula is to see the end of the tunnel. The border city of southern Mexico provides relief to hundreds of thousands of refugees en route to the United States. Many come from Latin America, but also, since the tightening of European […]
For the 150 anniversary of Continental the multinational automotive parts manufacturing company sought to unveil the authentic essence of their global facilities for an upcoming book and special project. I was asked to portray three of their facilities in San Luis Potosí, Mexico, to get a glimpse of their day-to-day activities that define Continental’s presence […]