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a philosophy for documentary photography

Canon Student Development Programme. Visa pour IÍmage.

Group of four women in helmets and safety gear, dark background, night or indoor lighting, one woman showing an object to the others.

Adventure and Exploration, Guanacaste. Parque Nacional Barra Honda.

Photography is a way of asking questions about place, time, and human presence.

More often than not, the story is already there, waiting to be recognized rather than constructed.

A person dressed as a nature-themed tribal character with a mask that has a wide mouth, wearing a headdress of ferns, surrounded by lush green leaves and plants in a forest setting.

Indigenous Culture. Buenos Aires, Puntarenas.

Begin with a question, not a conclusion. A project gains depth when uncertainty is allowed to lead, rather than answers imposed in advance.

People gathered around a fire at night, with banana trees in the background.

Documentary and Reportage. Boruca celebrations. Buenos Aires. Puntarenas.

Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Observe. Stay. Return

Nighttime city street with moving cars, streetlights, and tall illuminated buildings in the background.
Group of people outdoors, including a child in the foreground and three adults behind, with trees and cloudy sky in the background.
A wooden house on stilts over water, with a cloudy sky and ocean in the background, and various containers on the deck.
Two men on a small boat filled with bananas crossing a river in a rural area with mountains and cloudy sky in the background.

Orosi, Costa Rica

Talamanca, Costa Rica

Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Cayo de Agua, Panamá

Ciudad de Panamá.

Stay long enough for the place to respond. Time reveals what first impressions conceal, shaping the work through repetition and return.

Build context beyond the field.
Reading, listening, and understanding social and political dynamics anchor images in lived reality.

A wooden pier extends over a muddy, low tide area of the ocean toward a stilt house. The house has colorful signs, with one reading 'MUELLE' and another with partially visible text. The sky is overcast with some clouds, and distant forested hills are visible on the horizon.

Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica.

Ancash, Perú-

Photography gains depth when it works alongside tools such as mapping, modeling, and spatial analysis.

Sunset over a beach with calm waves, sandy shore, and islands in the distance.

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Accept the work as an ongoing process. Discovery becomes a daily relationship sustained by commitment rather than completion.

Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Winding mountain road through green, rocky landscape under cloudy sky.
Rocks along a lakeshore with gentle waves and wet sand, early morning or late evening lighting.

Trust the process enough to remain open.
A long-term project endures when belief in the work allows it to continue unfolding over time.

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Ancash, Perú

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Mountain lake with turquoise water surrounded by rocky slopes under a partly cloudy sky.
Sunset over a calm ocean with a sandy beach in the foreground and small islands on the horizon.
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A man with glasses taking a photograph with a camera, standing next to a wooden fence post with barbed wire at dusk or dawn.

Meet the Artist

I am a documentary photographer based in Costa Rica, working primarily in Central America. My practice is grounded in long-term projects developed through sustained presence, observation, and collaboration in the field.

With a background in architecture, my work is shaped by an interest in territory, spatial relationships, and the ways time, use, and power transform landscapes. I focus on environmental processes, conservation, and the social dynamics that emerge where land, policy, and daily life intersect.

I am the founder of the Museo Indígena Contemporáneo de Costa Rica, an independent cultural project dedicated to visual research, education, and the documentation of Indigenous cultures and territories.

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