Arkansas, USA – 2013 A couchsurfing trip with a girlfriend inspired a new series which is for the most part, simply an observation of select parts of The South, the most insightful and open-minded region of the United States of America. Most images were shot from the passenger’s seat of a moving vehicle. Shooting out of moving vehicles and through windows is something I’ve grown fond of lately. Maybe it’s because of the spontaneity or the lack of control…maybe it’s because doing it safely requires not being alone. This gallery has images from Arkansas and Texas and some images are part of a larger, more serious project that also contains photographs from Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico and Oklahoma. As I get the opportunities, it will…
Albacete, Spain – 2007 While in Spain my brother and I, being perpetual outsiders, managed to fit right in with a tight-knit community of Bolivian immigrants. Due to the fact that I owned a piece of technology called a camera, I was unknowingly volunteered as the Godfather of Photography for our friend’s wedding. When I found this out I was a bit irked. I don’t like weddings. I don’t like celebrating marriage. I don’t even like seeing two people happy together. Sickening, really. Since you asked, here’s the top few reasons I dislike photographing weddings: I don’t believe in marriage and I don’t want to document an event that celebrates and reinforces such an antiquated tradition. I’d be happy to take pictures of your Joint…
Ecuador – 2014 Andrew and I had just gotten into the swing of things enjoying Peru when we decided it was time to move on before experiencing comfort. We slowly moseyed into Ecuador from Peru via Tumbes up to Machala, putting our hopes to the test. Ecuador instantly had a more laid-back feel but I couldn’t tell if that was a mental block I had lifted or if it was the enormous banana plantations that surrounded us on all sides, making life seem a little less serious. Either way, I accepted the new excitement and exhaled slowly in relief. After we entered the country we stopped near the border by a gas station, some love motels and a small market with hundreds of bootlegged DVDs…
Piura, Ayabaca and the Coast – 2014 This one was sort of my bad. Andrew and I were in Cusco and trying to decide where to go next. I wanted to see a coffee farm while we were in Peru so I did a very minimal bit of research and determined there were coffee farms in Piura. Very simple. Next, we flew from Cusco to Piura. This is where it gets tricky…. So, sometimes you have a place that is a province. The province is a larger geographic area composed of cities and other designations…and sometimes a city shares the same name as its parent province. There are coffee farms in the province of Piura but…umm…there are no coffee farms anywhere near the city of…
Taiwan (台灣) – 2014/2015 Besides Taipei exists the majority of Taiwan. Not as slick or international as the capital but more in line with what I was looking for (adventures), I tried to get out of the city as much as I could. I liked Taipei a lot but in some ways it felt like a generic, faceless city and lacked a certain energy I was seeking. So…I escaped a lot. Friends wanted to show me their hometowns, I wanted to go search for different dragonflies and the train system in Taiwan is amazing. Also, Taiwan is a relatively small island compared to where I’m from–if you had the technology to move Taiwan and duplicate it inside of the state of Texas, you could do…
