Photography
The Becoming is a separate longitudinal work that emerged during the production of Gazing Soft. The first book and documentary follow four adult professional dancers. Skin and Grace – Episode IIThe Becoming During our time at the Escuela Nacional de Ballet, another possibility emerged. We met senior students, sixteen and seventeen years old, whose training
SKIN, and Grace — Gazing Soft I arrived in Cuba to photograph five professional dancers. I wanted to photograph their bodies, of course. But more than that, I wanted what remains when movement stops—masculinity in a country where the body is at once dance, resistance, and identity. David joined the Cuban group from Bucaramanga, a
The Semantic Void. (A Question of Friction) I printed Skin and Under in Italy, at Tipografia Sosso. The technicians handled the proofs — pages full of nudes — with the same ease they would have brought to a discussion of inks. We went in and out to check the proofs in sunlight, waving the large
During a four-day shoot, something was said — aimed at the only woman in a group of eight nude male models. I wasn’t there when it started. By the time I arrived, the men had closed ranks. Against Juan, I later gathered. At dinner I asked. Got only careful vagueness. The matter was theirs to
I photograph bodies. But not the way that phrase usually lands. A body is never just a body. It arrives already inscribed — by the culture it grew up in, the labor it performed, the gender it was assigned or chose, the food it ate, the sun it worked under, the touch it was or
SKIN AND UNDER II — Corpus Exemplare The first volume began with an observation: young men from Latin America, photographed across different cities and years, kept arriving at the camera in similar configurations. A particular set of the jaw. A way of holding the chest. Colombia, France, Italy, the United States—the geography changed. The clichés
I work with the body.Not to provoke, not to decorate, but to stay close to something honest. Today I had a conversation that quietly reminded me why this matters to me.A model told me he admired my work, but that full nudity wasn’t something he felt comfortable with. I respected that immediately. A body is
Bored of Very Serious Photography? Nothing on your skin. When I look at much of the “in-vogue” contemporary photography, I don’t feel rejection. I feel boredom. A deep boredom—not born of any intolerance for the new, but from the oppressive sense of recognizing the same script over and over, performed in the same flat voice,
SKIN, and Grace — Episode IGazing Soft Book and Film I arrived in Cuba intending to photograph five professional dancers, drawn to a grace I had previously known only through screens and fleeting digital fragments. Four ultimately became the subjects of this book and documentary. I wanted to photograph their bodies, of course—but more than
September/October 2025 Once again, I found myself journeying through Italy, heeding the call of my friend Anto. His recommendations were, as always, a series of irresistible commands: “You have to go there to photograph!” And, as always, I followed. Our first destination was Sicily. We landed in Catania in the violent embrace of a thunderstorm,
