I dedicate myself to writing, creating and editing around photography. I investigate the existence, the territory, the perception and the uses of the photographic image in the contemporary photobook. He co-directs the Muga publishing house and the LUR magazine.
I was born in the city of Temuco (Chile) in 1985. I have lived in Spain since 2015 and currently reside in Gijón.
I have a master’s degree in Art Production and Research from the University of Granada (Spain), a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Mayor (Chile) and a Diploma in Photography from the Pontificia Universidad Católica (Chile). I have taken the Documentary Making workshop at EICTV (Cuba) and the Creativity and Strategies in Contemporary Photography course with Javier Vallhonrat at EFTI (Spain), among others.
I have been awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Culture of Chile to develop training, circulation and research projects in Cuba, Spain and Portugal in the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2022. My artistic project Lo elevated profundo has been selected in the call for visual arts exhibition projects of the ‘Asturies, Cultura en Rede’ 2022 program of the Government of the Principality of Asturias (Spain).
I write texts for books, exhibition catalogs and artists’ books and interview personalities of contemporary thought and art.
I am the author of the photobook Pérdida (Muga, Fluq, 2015) and director of an investigation on the reading experience of photobooks, the result of which was the book De discursos visuales, secuencias y fotolibros (Muga, 2019).
The course ‘Editorial strategies in the creation of visual discourses in photobooks’, which I teach together with the editor Leo Simoes, has been taught at festivals, art centers, universities and photography schools in Mexico and Spain.
I co-direct LUR Library, a collection of short essays aimed at offering writings on photography by contemporary authors that address both artistic productions and the uses and functions of images in contemporary visual culture. Among the published titles are the winning works of the LUR Prize.
My artistic work has been exhibited in the Antigua Rula exhibition hall (Gijón, Spain), Factoría Cultural Multidisciplinary Artistic Center (Avilés, Spain), Museum of Art and History (Begira Photo Festival, Durango, Spain), Cultural Center of Spain (Santiago, Chile), Museum of Contemporary Art (Santiago, Chile), Sala Apertura (Málaga, Spain), Pablo Neruda Railway Museum (Temuco, Chile), among others.