into the wild...

My Scholarship entry - deep lacandonia jungle expedition

Mexico | Saturday, November 22, 2014 | 5 photos

I am a Mexican nomadic photographer and I have been living behind a lens for 10 years. For the last 4 years I have been on a personal quest to capture the roots of my culture in Mexico. Through my eyes and lenses Im able to see other realities that coexist with nature and within each other, and photography is the means for me to share the magnificence of the indigenous cultures of Mexico with the people that never travel.
One of my main missions as a photographer is to generate a new vision of the indigenous people of the world, I want to transcend the western-colonial point of view, and by learning and living with the tribes, see their reality through their own eyes. I want to tell a legitimate indigenous story, that is not about the conquistador view, my goal is to attain a more intimate perspective of their life, in order to tell the stories that need to be shared with the world, and by doing so, decolonize travel photography, to dignify the indigenous people.
In the next 5 years I see myself shooting documentaries with some of the most ancient tribes of the continent, not only because they are very important to me, but because they are endangered, and could disappear.