Travels with a pen and a camera.

My Scholarship entry - Small Moments in a Big City

France | Monday, November 17, 2014 | 5 photos

When I was six years old, I moved from Argentina to small town USA, and from that point on we preserved our former life in Buenos Aires through photo albums. I grew up with photographs that told my family's story.

Since then I have been fascinated by the power of an image to tell a story. I picked up my first digital camera, large and clunky, in the early 2000s to document a trip to the Iguazú falls, and upgraded to a slimmer model for my study abroad in the Netherlands in 2010. When I dropped and cracked that camera on the tile floor of an Italian hostel, I duck-taped the memory card in and kept shooting.

For me, photographs have always been a source of story telling – as my six-year-old childhood memories blurred, I had the reference point of photographs to remind me. I've come to adapt this into my life now as a traveler and aspiring photographer. As a child, I looked at photographs as images of home from a distance, but I am now learning to use travel and photography for the inverse, to see distance from home once I've returned. There are many more stories other than my own out in the world and I want to learn how best to tell them through my lens.