How did your interest in creation come about?

I don't know how or when. But it was sometime in my childhood. My grandmother's dessert will have started me, or my parents' kiss. I had a happy childhood. That is the origin of all the good things that happen to you in life. Surely, it was in my childhood that everything began. But the intention is acquired later.

Main sources of inspiration, closest artistic influences.

They are everywhere. They range from popular culture, art, literature, and music, to the most specific subgenre of documentary photography that the Sontag can remember. I am easy. I nurture myself from popular music as well as from the photographic tradition itself. It's hard to put it into words without sounding very-fancy, but it would be like looking for food in what has a soul. Now, in particular, I am inspired by Dostoevski, Borges, Neruda, Sebastiao Salgado, Cristina García Rodero, Basho, Melville inspires me with his "Call me Ishmael." and his apology to the sea, or Tarantino with his literary genius. I have a long and varied list of things with a soul.

How did the first series come about?

I think that when you are interested in art, in creation in its broad sense, there is the rare opportunity of the isolated event. There is very little chance for stand-alone. We almost always lean towards inquiry and deepening in the artistic fact, and from there comes serial creation. A series is a complete speech, while the isolated image is a word. Both ways are valid and beautiful.

For this reason, the first series is always born from a deeper investigation. You try to complete an idea. Like when I was working on my Seen in Miami series. Now, I remember not knowing it was a series until I had found at least several words for that larger narrative. I think it happens naturally, it's part of the creative process.

Lia is your recurring character. What does she represent in your professional world?

Lia is my most complex series, the discourse that unites the other discourses. If all I have done so far in photography were a book, Lia would be the index. If it were water, She'd be the container.