I was born in Cuba and grew up in Mexico City where my family lived very near an art house movie theatre. I used to sneak out late at night and watch foreign movies with directors like Fellini, Bunuel, Antonioni, and Kubrick. There was nothing else in this world I wanted to do more than to be behind a film camera. When I was 18 years old, I had an accident and lost vision in my right eye. At that time, I felt my dream of being a cinematographer was over. I took up photography because I thought it was my only choice to be behind a camera. I graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography and I started a commercial and fashion photography career.
I worked in Mexico City, New York and San Francisco and learned so much from talented professionals, about lighting, composition, and story telling with a single image. More importantly, I learned not to place limitations on myself. I realized that you have to fight for your dreams and and that one eye was all I needed to look through a viewfinder to create images.
