Hello! Thanks for visiting my photography website and taking the time to look at my photographs.
A little bit about me and how I got interested in photography and architecture. Well, first, I am an Architect. I went to school to one of the most beautiful campuses in the world: Ciudad Universitaria which is the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City (UNAM) and a UNESCO world heritage site. Looking back I realize how lucky I have been because I was formed within these outstanding places that have a strong presence in the way I see things. My second degree on Conservation and Restoration of Built Heritage is from the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Also a UNESCO world heritage site.
I have always had a camera with me since I began my career as an architect. My colleagues, friends, and family know that I am the one who brings the camera with and the one who takes the pictures. I have documented extensively my work on restoration of sixteenth-century structures in Mexico and every single place I have visited. I started, as many others, with a film camera and, as many others, I have boxes of negatives and slides that are waiting to be digitized. I have had a digital camera since 2002 and all my images are catalogued and organized properly.
In the past years I have devoted a good amount of energy to my photographic skills. I feel very passionate about photography and I am working on perfecting this beautiful art. Even though digital cameras have made our work relatively easier, getting a sharp and well executed image requires skills and practice. Since I am trained as an architect, I am interested in capturing spaces, light, shapes. I love to communicate with my images the essence of the spaces. Architecture is also an art and presenting properly is one of my passions.
Oh! and I almost forget to say that in addition to my interest on photography I am also a Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation at the University of Texas at Austin. My expertise as an academic involves case studies of ancient masonry techniques, stereotomy, form-performance structures and architectural geometry. My most recent book named “Mixtec Stonecutting Artistry” published by the National Autonomous University of Mexico contains lots of my photographs and it has received numerous awards. My exhibition accompanying the book has been traveling for five years through ten different venues of Mexico and United States.