ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Chihuahua, Mexico – 2016, -Down there live the bad guys- a young kid told me when we got to this place. The Copper Canyon in the north of Mexico is one of the most impressive sites I have visited. Stunning sights and the beautiful Tarahumara culture, the native people, have been together for centuries until not so long ago the narcos came. The narcos, organised criminals and drug dealers have abused the poverty of the Tarahumaras and tricked many of them. Today, most of the lower parts of The Copper Canyons are owned and managed by the narcos whereas the top of the Canyon is touristic (the second main economic activity in the region after organised crime).

Young boys like the one who guided me here have to start working as guides at a young age, 7 or 8 years old, or their prospects are bad: join the narcos or flee illegally to the United States.

In this picture, there is a narco-controlled town framed by the Bauichivo Canyon.

AUTHOR
I am a young designer and photographer, passionate about people and our relationship with nature. I was born and have lived most of my life in Mexico City. Since I was a kid, incentivised by my parents, I have admired the world as an enormous and complex place with so much beauty that it was almost immoral not to portray it or communicate it in some way.
In 2014, my brother and I started a photography and filming studio in Mexico City and, with the money I earn with this part time job, I have been able to buy better personal photography equipment and travel to different places in order to continue photographing the world.
When I began design school in 2013, I fell in love with photography as it is my brother's profession and since then have become increasingly involved with the discipline and therefore interested in showing my work to more people. Mixing my education in design with photography, I search for images that dare show real moments and feelings that I have when observing the world. It is all about feelings, textures and atmospheres. I strongly believe that contemporary aesthetics are not only about what we want to see, but must also relate to the real suffering and joy of the majority of the people on the world as well as to the conflicts we have with the world itself. The human way of life has proven to be unsustainable and cruel, it is responsibility of the new generations in this discipline to show how the ecological discourse is not working, how right and wrong are not set on stone, how culture is ever-changing and far more complex than we know and how only we can make the world better.

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