Passage to India

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Worldwide | Tuesday, November 8, 2011 | 5 photos

We all rise to the same sun. We are all embraced by the same night. But there is a blessing in meeting the morning with passion and sense of purpose: the sun is brighter, the night whispers sweetness after a dedicated day to a loved creation. Through photography and writing I started discovering this passion seven years ago. This was when I took my first photograph and felt the surge of energy after creating something. I remember the exact moment of it. I was eighteen. I was in a ranch outside Mexico City, and my brother had just bought a camera. I took the picture of a chicken next to a tree.
Since that day my photographic journey has developed with a dreamlike quality; An SLR camera as a gift the next year, a well appreciated home exhibition of my first works. And suddenly I find myself aiming for the most exciting work I can imagine myself doing: travel photographer.
This dream job has given a new direction to my initially erratic exploration in photography. I discover that I’m most open and available to create when in a strange place, or when meeting new eyes, or lost in a forest. A sense of adventure nourishes my eyes and my soul like nothing else.
Day by day this passion expands and deepens. I meet it with responsibility. Thanking the skills that I've got and asking for the right guidance to make of this work a service to my fellows, the earth and all life in it.
When the sun sets nothing matters most than whether we have given the best of us or not. The best of me comes through photography and writing. Getting this scholarship would mean to shape a fire into a relentless dedication to life through photography.