Curriculum

I was born in Montevideo, in 1955. In my youth I studied Chemistry and I am self though in Photography, after I discovered it as a fine art when I was thirty years old. By Fine Art I mean that kind of work that is intentionally done based in three pillars: the idea, the choose of a technique and the selection of materials to express what is really wanted to.

I am prepared to receive Chance: it is welcome when I’m investigating my new processes and formulas. I think of it as a fortuitous event that must be always taken into account. Once discovered, I try to put it under control, although perhaps it’s at the inverse.

For the developing of film and for the printing of my photographs I use formulas of my own, trying to give each picture a special atmosphere.

I design and make artist' books which include haiku, prose, drawing, calligraphy, photography and mixed media.

There are different kinds and styles of work in my portfolios. In some way they outline my self. They are reflections of interests and moods’ fluctuations along my life and times. To quest, to investigate, to answer: these are my leitmotiv.

I exhibited my work in galleries, universities and museums in Uruguay, Argentine, Brazil, U.S.A., The Caribbean, Spain and The Netherlands. Among my exhibitions are FotoFest '92 Houston U.S.A., (Honored guest), Festival de la Luz, Argentina, where I received Discovery Prize 2004, and FotoFest International Discoveries 2007, Houston, U.S.A.

I obtained First Prize in V Municipal Art Saloon, Montevideo, Uruguay. My work was selected for the XVII Encuentros Abiertos de Fotografía, Festival de la Luz in Argentina.

My work is cited in anthologies and publications such as "Alaska Editions #2 – Contemporary Photography" (London, UK); "Image and Memory: Photography from Latin America 1866-1994" (Houston, U.S.A.); "Orientalism in Hispanoamerican Modernism" (Araceli Tinajero, Purdue University Press, USA); "Premio Festival de la Luz" (Ediciones Larivière, Argentina), Foto Mundo Magazine, Argentine, Dossier Magazine, Uruguay, and “Uruguayan Art: From the Masters to our days”, Investigation by Prof. Ángel Kalenberg, Edition by El País, Uruguay.

My photographs are present in private collections in Brazil, Argentine, U.S.A., Spain, France, Canada and Uruguay, and in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA.