Biography
It was late 1955 when my eyes peeped at the city of La Paz near the high Andes. Since then, they have learned by capturing sparkles of light.
Started at the age of 10 with oil painting and playing in darkroom (full equipment I discovered in my home basement), later taking pictures of what my eye...
It was late 1955 when my eyes peeped at the city of La Paz near the high Andes. Since then, they have learned by capturing sparkles of light.
Started at the age of 10 with oil painting and playing in darkroom (full equipment I discovered in my home basement), later taking pictures of what my eyes noticed. Took as much photography courses as I could. Still continue learning and testing/using new digital tools.
The influence of Ansel Adams and Vincent Van Gogh work has forged my technique to pursue the chase of Water and capture its beauty, creating a large portfolio during my visits to more than 40 countries. Living in 10 of them and settled at the small town of Calera de Tango in Chile.
My work was done using a medium format film camera, and currently with a digital camera. I try to capture the beauty of water in all its forms; denouncing many times the little interest that our civilized world invests in its conservation and preservation. Printing mainly on large size fine art photographic paper, in Color as well as Black & White.
The passion of portraying water was funded by me, as well as most of the exhibits I made, except for a few that Sony Chile provided equipment and funding for printing and framing.
Water, an important resource, source of life, and protagonist of my exhibitions around the world, that converge between the look of the paused movement, preserving it for future generations, as is the case of certain images that I took at a glacier that has disappeared in less than 20 years.
Awards
2023
University Photo-Cinema Club Banjalukat University Photo-Cinema Club Banjaluka. Two images selected [Bosnia and Herzegovina]
2004
Inter-American Development Bank, First Inter-American Competition and Exhibit of Digital Photography. Honorable mention [USA]
1984
Goethe Institut competition - 3 wards: First, second and honorable mention [Bolivia]
Group Exhibitions
2009
Buenos Aires Photo. Exhibit through Galería Isabel Aninat [Argentina]
2007
Centro Cultural de España. Theme: Honoring Gonzalo Rojas [Chile]
2007
Foto Encuentro 2007. Theme: Waters of the World in Blue [Bolivia]
2006
Kévés Stúdio Galería. Theme: Bolivian art [Hungary]
2005
Watermark Fine Art Photographs and Books. Anniversary [USA]
2004
Watermark Fine Art Photographs and Books. Theme: Water [USA]
2004
Galería M2. Theme: My Beach [Chile]
2004
Inter-American Development Bank. Theme: Digital Photography [USA]
2004
Marziart International Gallery. Theme: Water in Blue [Germany]
1984
Goethe Institut. Theme: Water [Bolivia]
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Corporación Cultural El Tranque (Exhibit of my images and poems of Gonzalo Rojas). Title: Del Agua [Chile]
2008
Museo Agbar (Exhibit of my images and poems of Gonzalo Rojas). Title: De l’Aigua [Spain]
2008
FotoAmérica 2008, Galería Isabel Aninat. Title: I’m Water [Chile]
2006
FotoAmérica 2006, Museo Rancagua. Title: The Water [Chile]
2006
Medtronic. Title: Waters of the World in Blue 2 [USA]
2006
ArsLatino. Title: Waters of the World 2 [Chile]
2006
Corporación Cultural de Las Condes. Title: Sabattier Revisited [Chile]
2006
Icebox Gallery. Title: Waters of the World in Blue [USA]
2004
FotoAmérica 2004, Mall Plaza Oeste. Title: Nearby Waters [Chile]
2004
FotoAmérica 2004, Edificio Huidobro. Title: Waters of the World [Chile]
2003
Corporación Cultural de Las Condes. Title: Water as-is [Chile]
2001
Corporación Cultural de Las Condes. Title: It’s only Water [Chile]
1996
Instituto Chileno Norteamericano. Title: Water [Chile]
