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Última Estación

Última Estación is a tour through the almost 400 km of the steam train's railroad in Paraguay. The photographs were taken between 1989 and 1991, time in which the railroads already showed their slow way to extinction. Throughout the roads between the cities of Asunción and Encarnación, plus the road San Salvador-Abaí, the camera mainly captured the faces of passengers and railroad workers, main witnesses of the train's decadence, and the life that is generated throughout the road. The camera that was used for this essay was a 35mm and the film was Tri-X.

Tablada

Tablada is a slum of the city of Asunción, where the Mburicao Stream flows into the Paraguay River. During the time in which these pictures were taken, from 1990 and 1992, the neighborhood started making a living from the garbage that the garbage collectors’ trucks threw away. The fishermen families changed to the recycling activity, but didn’t stop being exposed to the flood and the poverty shown in the pictures. The photographs were taken with a 35mm camera and Tri-X film.

Fin de Zona Urbana

In Ciudad del Este, there is a contrast among cultures, products, people and characters that is crossed through an intense legal and illegal commercial flow. The city borders with Brazil, and it is in the zone known as Triple Border, where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay border. The main character of these pictures is the visual chaos generated by the publicity banners, the street sellers and other characters that are the result of an uncontrolled globalization. These photographs are from 1995 and 2003. They were taken by a 6x6 medium format camera with a Tri-X film.

Entrecasa For the children in the photographs the house is a world of games. The camera gets integrated in the fun by playing not only with the kids, but also with light, angles and shapes. Throughout seven years, from 1990 to 1997, the context of everyday life’s situations, very spontaneous and childish, was captured in the house with a 35mm camera and Tri-X film.

Salsa NY

During three months of 1994, Salsa and Latin Jazz musicians from New York City were the focus of a 35mm camera. The most joyous Latin micro cosmos of a cosmopolitan city was captured with an intense flash light and color slide film in a time in which the Latin American culture emerged as a fashion in the United States. In the pictures, well known figures of the Latin Jazz world can be seen, such as Tito Puente, Paquito D’Rivera, Ray Barreto, Darío Eskenazi, Héctor Martignon... People dancing and other musicians on and back stage can also be seen in the pictures.

XKSA

XKSA (in the house) is the photographer’s first approach to the new technological device: the digital camera. The unanimated fetishes that were photographed, practical objects inside the house, seem to acquire life and movement with the light that touches them, which is the main character of these photographs. The pictures were taken with a 3.2 mega pixels amateur digital camera between November 2004 and April 2005.

Border

Border can be considered the sequel of Fin de Zona Urbana, because of the recurring topic of the border as a place of exchange. This time, however, the camera gets more into the activity on the bridge itself and into the world that exists on the other side, Brazil. Also, the colors are now present in the photographs in order to highlight the swap, result of the globalization, even more. For this essay, a 3.2 mega pixels amateur digital camera was used, which allowed the photographer to be seen as a tourist.

Commercial Work

This is a selection of photographs that were taken to order, in different social and business-related events, productions for magazines, publicity, and others. All of them were released under the name fotoestudio792, photographic studio created on April 2005. They were taken with a professional digital camera. Though some of the selected pictures have not been used by the client, who has his own editorial criteria, it is because of the author’s exclusive decision that they are here.