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My dreams as a child were to be a football goalkeeper star, something a practiced throughout my childhood with passion. However, the seed of images germinated since then with the Mexican comic books my father used to get me: Superman, Batman, Spiderman, etc. I remember I didnt read the stories, I only observed the little figures and imagine their development. Were there artistic tendencies in your family? Only my sister Ana always had a predilection for music. She used to play the piano for many years, and I remember her sitting in front of the piano and practicing. We had a cat who was a classical music fan, and he would lay next to her and listen to her play. Other than that, I cannot say I have a reference that would allow me to inherit fondness for the arts. Can you point to something in your childhood that could have originated your attraction to realistic images? Since I was a child, I had intimate contact with the earth and other materials. The inclination to work with my hands arose from that experience: I modeled figures which, throughout the years, I would put on paper using shaded drawing in pencil or ink. I was mainly good at portraying faces I saw in pictures of magazines. During my adolescence, I got to know oil and was able to make some medium-size canvases, but always of images taken out of pictures. It would take me weeks to finish the work. As the years went by, I found out that, by pressing the cameras obturator, I was already copying the image I had in front of me, so naturally I stopped drawing. There is also another fact that helped me out with photography. It turns out that during my whole childhood I played daily as a football goalkeeper; it was my biggest passion and I got to be outstanding in my generation. This developed my reflexes and the ability to profoundly concentrate during instances. Today, I am convinced that it is the same kind of ability needed to capture images with a camera. What is creative about photography are precisely those instants, and they have a lot to do with reflexes: the connection between eye-heart-click. When and why did you know you were going to be a photographer? When I contacted the first photography materials, and when I simultaneously acquired a 35 mm camera, I knew my life would be deeply related with this expressive mean of communication. I have a newspaper clipping "La Calle", dated December of 1979, where I was interviewed after winning a photography contest. Back then I answered the following about the subject: "Photography entered my life from the moment I got to closely know a camera (only two and a half years ago). Since that moment, I gradually began to be aware of the means to create images; up until that moment I had only experimented with drawing and a little bit of painting. Now I am confident about the fact that one of the beautiful things you can do in life is photography. I still cannot be sure of a future position in the field, but I am convinced I will always live close to it". Was the university career you chose satisfactory? The boom of television in La Pampa arrived when I was 14 years old. This fact, along with a very personal taste for cinema sessions since my childhood, saved me a lot of doubts at the moment of choosing a university career. I entered the School of Communication in Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Cordoba in 1977. It was a small school that was able to survive the massive closing of humanistic careers because of the militarists taking over in March of 1976. Imagine, we were seven students in the group, and we finished the 3-year technical major in Communications by Images: 3 men and 4 women, all of us dedicated to communications ever since, by doing different activities: journalism, publicity, television, education, etc. |
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