TheTimeStoppingMachine

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Mexico | Tuesday, November 8, 2011 | 5 photos

The time stopping machine. This is how I call a camera. You can stop the time in a photo and preserve it fresh through the years.
International nomads and 'Tramperos' (people who hop on the train but not the normal passenger train because it no longer exists in Mexico), these people are immigrants from South and Central America and even from Mexico travelling up north trying to get to the border with the U.S.A and eventually into the U.S. in an illegal way of course; destination, reaching the ''American dream''. I met a few of them and they all dream of it.
I've always being involved in photography since I was a kid but never thought of making my living out of it. Since I was a teenager, I used to help my dad taking pictures along with my oldest brother in weddings and 'quinceañeras' (similar to the sweet 16 in the U.S.A.) Honestly, I never liked it and I even swore no to become a wedding photographer.
One day when I was in the university I borrowed one of my dad's most precious cameras to photograph some cultural events in my school. I was taking photos in a closing party of an annual event when my camera didn't wanted to shoot anymore photos and I still had half the film left. Suddenly I got this plastic burning smell and by the time I figured out what it was, my camera had a short circuit. That was the last time I grabbed a camera.
Now I live in Queretaro, Mexico and I work as a wedding photographer and I love it and enjoy it but I'd love to photograph more than people getting married and South Africa would be the perfect place to start making my dream come true.