the ice
I want to say hello to my health
how are you thanks
I just want to give them like a little one
introduction this talk did just
to motivate those people to those people who
has been with me already during some
weather
They are people who have believed a lot in me
in fact they are everywhere and good
I bring you a message I hope that you
like everyone at some time
they asked this question what do you want to be
When you grow up, it happens to me
they did it to me when I had more or less
16 years
This question was asked by my father and me
I was so worried so focused on
know my little inner world that what
only thing I could do at that time
answer the question was to return it to
my father
another question what do you think if I better
Take Disney and it may seem funny
it may seem even childish
obviously many will think that is the
a child’s response and mature
however today that my life is overturned
completely to art
I can tell you that at that time
answer was a pretty answer
creative
today almost 30 years after having
raised that riddle what can I do
is to answer my adult clients to
my photography students and even to
my personal projects with the vision
with clairvoyance with let’s talk about the
intuition of those days
and it is that good or bad all of us day to
day we have to face questions
large or small that require
answers
let’s think of Disney as this situation
of dreams of the illusion that brings
for a small child of six years in
this trip happened something magical
on this trip they gave me my first
photographic camera
that I still have and in some way
So I started to answer these
questions without knowing it without knowing it I started
to answer however I would still have
to cross a road in a certain way
tortuous confused and sometimes even evasive
hand in hand with the education system and the
hand of my parents as well ends the
school and begins school the
answers start to come back a little bit
more coherent they wonder what do you want
do when you grow up and one says to me
I would love to be a painter
I would love to be an artist
like to maybe be a scalar fireman
mountains
or maybe be a priest in a place
distant and remote
at this point one starts at
university and the question has a
small turn is a very small turn my
father told me good now that you started
the university that you’re going to do that you’re going to
study to be someone in life and
so suddenly without more
we have to start making decisions
like these, what do I want to do for the
rest of my life because it is not easy
some will say I want to be a lawyer
others can say I want to be a doctor
I would like to be a medical manager of a
company
I would like to be an architect and that’s what
I did I studied architecture and I worked
for ten years as an architect
always knowing that I was missing something
the only trip is the trip to the interior
this said it rilke then what I
I want is with my photography to invite them to
all of you to be part of a trip and
we will get into that vehicle
when I was a child
my first trips were trips
close
for example this photograph of the volcano
misti in Peru or travel a little more
far after where I was looking for
It was with my camera to start
look at those things that my eyes do not
they could see if I got close to the
fitzroy in Argentina but the
photography was starting to give something
this vehicle was starting to deliver me something
more I was getting out of the routine what
what was happening was that this being
architect became more bearable
somehow my trips started to
go much farther
I started to go to the other side of the world
as for example to the incommensurable
himalayas and was there hanging from a
snow camp at 6,400 meters
height waiting for you at sunset
or being in the last lights in front of the
highest pyramid in the world the mount
everest and in the last trips my ship
this kind of vehicle next to me has
taken for example to appreciate the
beauty of Mount Fuji that beauty with
ica but by far we try to
travel no matter how much we want to get away
it turns out ironically that the answers
They are usually at home in our own
home as for example
the photograph of the cotopaxi volcano whose
meaning is moon neck and here in
house in the cotopaxi
I started it finding one of my first
answers
that vehicle next to that is aircraft
for me it was photography is not up
that we are lost that we begin to
understand ourselves
starts a time let’s say a bit
dark what is happening and I’m
trying to answer who I am and when
someone asks me good what are you doing for
live
I answer I ‘m an architect but when
I wonder what I want to do I tell myself
I would like to dedicate myself fully and for
complete photography and the truth is
I want to point out that I do not
Surprise people who always knew
who knew how to answer these questions
of entry because they went back to adults
at 12 to 18 to 24 years old
what interests me is all that
people who often have to navigate
countercurrent uphill like the
salmon and many times it seems that they are
giving in circles you do not know where you’re going
while the rest of people seem
have some knowledge about the
success of which we do not see private
well, it turns out that many times
they say in that boat you will not get to
Nowhere
the truth is that it’s not just about that
it’s not just about going through these
dark moments because we are something like that
like this volcano like the tungurahua
in this picture it seems that he does not want
Erupting seems that fails
erupt
and it is that many times we want that
we want to express ourselves and we do not know how
but there will always always be that energy
positive within all of you that
desire to color the lives of their
loved ones from your friends even from
people that you know you need and
that something does not usually have a
tree that we can not embrace starts with
a little seed and a trip like that
long begins with a single step
however, that step is the most difficult
of age and in my case the step included
let it all explode completely
incinerate many of the ideas
preconceived burn ideas
preconceptions that I have about who I am
to really start to bloom
then paint is this auto
discover I am completely
linked to the image
my work is completely visual and I
I start looking for the way to paint
then a group of friends one day
about and he did me and we have seen that you
work is super interesting that you’re
doing and they tell me why they do not organize
a course because it does not teach us what you
you know and I decide to give one of my first
courses that was in digital development
at that time the applications will be
extremely innovative
let’s say that the photograph of the
custom old photography still
was anchored to this idea of not going to
do this the photographs have to
be pure
however, I thought at some point
these new applications are going to be the
general workflow standard
of the photographer
but it’s not just this question of teaching
what I started to discover is the question
to share if one wants to be a
teacher what
does it have to teach because that forces
to that the knowledge begins to
organize then it starts already
share and start to enter into networks
late and early social events that happens with
this from social networks
I resisted for a long time
login to facebook but when I started
use it was early because because
I started using it as a way of
business and I started doing something to invest
in something that a lot of people might think
it’s just not profitable
that was to make landscapes and start
write and talk about the things that I
I think and I feel that I keep doing courses
continue to teach people and start
discover in my students what is
missing me to know who I am
it’s as if they were a sketch in
black and white of many things that
they want to do but they do not dare
I started to see that they had this
question a lot of people approached like me
I would love to achieve this, however,
They knew how to motivate themselves
so the first thing I started doing is
motivate them to color them
feel that they are capable they have a
million creative possibilities
they have a million ways to
Express oneself
some are already discovering others
I’m waiting for you and I’ll be there
when they need it
so many times we think that this
of discovering a kind of
lighting is a kind of epiphany
as a salvation
however we also think good the
clarity of that day
I probably will not touch me that
it is not true
you are not alone I went through the
same path for me has also been
hard to find who I am doing what
that I really love and that’s it
start looking for a light that is the
inside
I with my photographs what has
started is to look for that light that is at
inside of everyone and not only of my
students but began to expand towards
other sides so we all know what
we can do this is something that I
I wrote I was going to burn it with everything and
the boats if you’re going to cry they flood
the desert if you are going to laugh
pulverizes the crystalline silence because
If you are going to love you can not stay in the
tried
when I received the invitation to speak
about my ideas and about my photography what
first I thought it’s good that’s what
I have to say what I have
to contribute and instead
after a few days just like that
as a lighting came
it’s not about what I have today
what to tell them
it’s about what I can do
and what I can do is create fire
ignite a spark in people
come out of here feel motivated
light up each one his spark because I
being present here in front of you not
I am no strange animal I am not a being
from another planet
it’s not that I ‘m a reference
impossible is more my students know the
difference is
where the seeker finds
I’m going to end up with accountants one last
anecdote
This is the moment when I understood
my spark
this photograph is called awakening
venus 331 and forever changed everything
what did I think
about photography when I saw in the
monitor my camera
this picture I thought finally everything has
changed then although these images is
what I do
in them I am also I am venus
this white dragon this is me
incinerating the space illuminating the
firmament and I sincerely believe that
we can all achieve it thanks
[Applause]
”
Be First to Comment