What kind of camera did you use at the beginning? My father helped me out in those difficult beginnings by buying me a 35 mm Miranda camera with normal 50 mm lens. I was with it for some time until I traveled to Buenos Aires to buy my first Nikon FM, a love at first sight that gave place to a fidelity to the brand that continues to these days. Did you take photography seriously since the beginning? Of course I did. It was all about achieving dominance of an communications art. That would perhaps give reason to my life in the future. I was always passionate and I give it all when something I find something internally fulfilling, I know no other way to live. I remember that during my first laboratory classes in black and white, my professor would say: "You will never get to be a photographer, you are clumsy in your work". He was right, but these comments only encouraged me to improve and pay more attention to the processes. What memories does your first job bring you? The best ones. The newspaper "puntal" was founded in Rio Cuarto, the first one with the new offset printing system. We were four people working in the photography section, all of us were university classmates and the atmosphere was that of great comradeship. During the six months the job lasted, I learned to manage black and white and laboratory processes, and I acquired an idea of life as a photo reporter. To be honest, going after the news was not really my thing and, in part for that reason, I decided afterwards to emigrate to Mexico in search of new horizons and a lifestyle that is more for me. Why not stay in Argentina and try the capital city? Or... did the military regime had anything to do with your decision? I admit Buenos Aires is a very interesting city and back then it was fascinating to walk along its vertiginous streets. But my search was bigger then that. I was 21 and I needed to know my own limits. That is more easily achieved by living in a different culture, like the Mexican culture. I had other two reasons to choose this country: the language and its closeness to the USA, an idea that is always attractive to a young person with desire to experiment. The presence of militarists in the government did not at all influence my decision to emigrate, although I must admit that the atmosphere was a bit suffocating. My return to Argentina for two years (1983-1985) did not make me forget the recent Mexican phase, which filled me with nostalgia. That is why I had to come back to complete my experience in Mexico, and I have not left the country since. What did Mexico offer that trapped you? Any foreign, sensitive photographer perceives this country as an infinite universe of images. It is never enough what you have time to accomplish here. Taking a camera out to the streets is like opening a new album so that unusual images rush, rich in shape and content. My first contact with the city exalted my fantasy: Its size and the possibilities I intuited made easy my first Mexican phase, which lasted for more than a year (1982-1983).