WHO AM I?
I was born in the city of Paysandú and currently live in Amsterdam. I’m Uruguayan by birth and by heart, and Dutch by need and convenience. I’m not a professional photographer, but a social scientist who happens to love photography. I was trained as a social anthropologist and then I got a MA and a PhD degree in development studies.
I am a Fellow of the Transnational Institute (TNI), an Amsterdam-based research and advocacy centre committed to building a just, democratic and sustainable planet. My job includes a lot of journeys around the world, and my camera always travels with me. Through the lens I register images and thoughts that then feed my work as a writer.
As the great master Henri Cartier-Bresson already noted decades ago, to photograph “it’s to put on the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart”. That is precisely my aim.