"You don't need to resort to tricks to take photographs. You don't have to make anyone pose in front of the camera. The photographs are there, waiting for you to make them. Truth is the best photograph, the best propaganda."
I see the world trying to shed what I already know, what I already expect to find. There is something in the act of looking that is easily contaminated: by habit, by what one has already seen before, by what one believes one should see. That's why the work begins before pressing the shutter. It begins in emptying oneself a little.
What I'm after is to capture what the moment has to offer, not what I went looking for. That difference, however small it may seem, changes everything.
I photograph from memory and from questioning. There are objects that have interrogated me since childhood, people who carry in their bodies a history they don't always have words to tell, places that hold time in a way only the image can freeze. That's what interests me: what exists, but no longer exists, what is seen, but asks to be read in another way.
When I recognize an image as mine—something that happened only once and will never happen again—I understand that it actually no longer belongs entirely to me. The moment another person looks at it, something transforms. It stops being my memory and becomes something new: the experience of whoever receives it, with their own history, their own sensitivity, their own silences. That seems to me the most honest thing a photograph can do: o p e n i t s e l f.
That's why the real search begins in connection. With people, making the camera stop being an obstacle and become an excuse to be present together. With objects and spaces, learning to listen to what they say when no one is watching: the dust, the broken order, the tool resting where someone left it last. In that stillness there is a conversation waiting.
I don't look for the perfect image. I look for the honest one. The one that says something different to each person who sees it, brutal or loving, but always true. The one that invites you to take your own journey: to remember what objects we keep, what we leave behind, what stories we're building without realizing it.
In the end, photography is a way of not forgetting. And also of inviting others to remember.