The Art of Obsession

My photography is both a blessing and a curse. It is my pursuit of order in a world that refuses to stay still.

I see through an obsessive lens. Lines must align. Frames must balance. Patterns must resolve. What others pass by, I reorganize. What feels chaotic, I try to contain.

Architecture gives me structure. Cities give me repetition. Geometry gives me control.

Every photograph is a negotiation between patience and compulsion. I wait. I reframe. I step left, then right. I hold the shutter until the elements fall into place. It is not about documenting reality as it is. It is about forcing reality to make sense, even if only for a fraction of a second.

I gravitate toward black and white because it strips the world to its bones. It removes the seduction of color and exposes structure. It makes the beautiful more precise and the imperfect more honest. Black and white feels timeless. It feels like memory. When I use color, it is deliberate. It is never decoration. It is emphasis.

My work is rooted in movement. I was born in Mexico City. I lived in Madrid. Then Playa del Carmen. Now Chicago. In every place, I tried to blend in, to understand the rhythm, to belong, to find my role.

The city is my true subject. People enter my frame not as portraits, but as anchors. I use them to scale architecture, to interrupt lines, to humanize structure. Often they are isolated within the composition, small against something larger. In many ways, that isolation reflects my own search for position inside the spaces I inhabit.

Chicago is the first place where that question feels less heavy. Here, I found community. I found conversation. I found a rhythm that matches mine. The obsession with order is still there, but it no longer feels like survival. It feels like craft.

The Commercial Work

Sixteen years of professional photography. Before that, four years studying architecture.

That combination shapes how I work. I don’t just photograph spaces, I read them. I understand what an architect was trying to solve, where the light will land at a given hour, and how to move through a room without disrupting it. The discipline of architecture trained my eye long before a camera was in my hands.

My commercial work has taken me across Mexico, Latin America, the Caribbean and The United States, photographing for hospitality brands, interior design firms, architects, and creative teams. Clients have included the St. Regis Mexico City, W Hotel Mexico City, Fairmont Mayakoba, NH Collection Hotels, Minor Hotels, Airbnb Luxe, Luxury Retreats, Cartier, American Express, Coca-Cola, and Tripadvisor, among others.

In 2023, I relocated to Chicago. My client base here is still growing, deliberately. I’m looking to work with designers, architects, and hospitality teams in this city who care about how their work is represented: not just documented, but understood.

If you’re working on something in Chicago, I’d like to hear about it.