Morning After (2012)
“Women solicited by modeling agencies and hired by promoters. Some have successful careers outside the club, but most are still trying to make it. They are the ambiance and entertainment in a nightclub. After the client, they may be the biggest assets” (New York Magazine, 2010). Often coined as “halfway hookers”, these young women lose their identity and give up everything to partake in the intoxicating illusion of celebrity lifestyle. This editorial series chronicles three main characters during “the morning after” where self-evaluation, experience, and events that led to emotional numbness replay in their heads creating a time of vulnerability. My goal was to use fashion style photography to help capture the transition from the lifestyle they think they lead to the realization of being emotionally lost because of their overwhelming desire for fame and fortune.
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Catalyst (2011)
“God save us everyone, will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns? For the sins of our hand, the sins of our tongue, the sins of our father, the sins of our young" -Linkin Park
This series was inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s Social Sins and Linkin Park’s “Catalyst”. The idea behind this series was to explore the sins through a perspective focusing on how each sin is perceived as a norm rather than what it has manifested into. The force that drives the sin creates a need for power rather it be the want for dominion or the ability to control the environment. This force alters our perception to believe each sin as a natural human act, therefore labeling it as human nature.
In this series, each sin is portrayed through human emotion and expression. Make up, color, and environment forces us to isolate each sin and decipher what we see from what really is there.
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Love ur Bones! (2011)
About love your bones: The path to self-acceptance, self-love, and self-actualization is not an easy task. Often we become tangled in the web of life, especially when our true self is not one that is immediately accepted by society. At times the person we know becomes convoluted with external sources of contempt and disappointment leading us to forget our true identity. Our inner voice becomes muted and forgotten. This series is dedicated to those who have struggled with identity, acceptance, and self-love as well as those who possess the courage to step outside of the societal comfort zones and show how powerful they are by loving who they are. LOVE UR BONES!
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Freight (2015)
We all live In a convoluted world that forces us to accept, address, release or embrace over our past.
In this series, the artist documents stories told and released within a confined space, the freight elevator. Everyone has a story. These stories were experiences, perceptions or even just a feeling. By being contained, each model reveals a silent story that we all can either empathize, sympathize or inspire. We all are connected and freight is where it begins.
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Life: Untainted (2009)
Life: Untainted is an intriguing collection of human emotion inspired by musical works, including Beethoven's passionate "moonlight sonata," Radiohead's volatile "Creep" and Lenny Kravitz's edgy "The minister of rock and roll." Life: Untainted forces the view into introspection. This series a collection of photographs; it is a complication of unadulterated emotions and sedated feelings, it is... Life: Untainted.
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Todavia Amo ... I still love (2016)
Ojos me miran, brazos me abrazan sin miedo sin juicio y sin reglas
Listening to the voices that are in my head; Capturing the beat of my heart
Orejas me escuchan, manos me tocan
Sin saber sin conocer pero con pasíon
Refusing to give up, Jumping at my chance I ask, I take that risk; society doesn't control me
Boca me besan; Dedos me acarisian; Sin preguntar; Sin razones
He looks; she stares; she looks;he stares
We blend and mix and separate and dissolve into a flash of colors
Ojos me miran, brazos me abrazan ... Sin miedo sin juicio y sin reglas
(Poem by Rachel Peralta)
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who I AM (2018)
“So powerful is unity’s light that I can illuminate the whole earth” – Baua’u’llah
When I first started conceptualizing the series “who I AM” in 2009, I dreamt of imagery that was thought provoking and calming at the same time. I was inspired after visiting the Bahá'í temple, and looking up at the ceiling, and seeing how the light filtered through the dome above, and that simple beam of light brought peace to my chaotic mind at that moment. At that silent moment, I was thinking about how lost we sometimes feel in our purpose. Some search their entire lives, some fulfill it at some point and some have always known since birth. “who I AM” is about the journey towards finding my purpose.
As I looked back, I realized all my photography series, lead up to this one. I started out with “Life and Death” a series depicting sins and virtues, then a collection of mini series within “Life: Untainted” that confronted my nightmares and awakened my dreams, “Catalyst”, a series about the Gandhi’s social sins, “Love your bones”, a journey to self love and “Freight”, a collection of photographs reflecting on finding stillness in social chaos. Each series taught me something significant. I learned that no matter how deep you fall into darkness, your inner mirror, somehow cleaned, by each person you come across or in my case, each person I photographed. Each person/model helped me clean my inner mirror in order to reflect that light, to accept my purpose and hopefully spread the message that, we all have that mirror, and it is up to us let that light reflect and share that light with others. You see, we are predestined to share harmony and fellowship, love and solidarity, compassion and unity. Being unanimity in complete dignity and freedom with all on earth is “who I AM”.
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