ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Riga, Latvia - 2016, around 25 years of being independent again after Soviet and German occupations, Latvian culture, one of the poorest and most marginalised of the European Union, cannot get rid of centuries of oppression. Even if today the government of Latvia is democratic and the country is rapidly assimilating occidental culture, there still is strong friction between Latvian and Russian population in a capital city spotted with old Soviet Monuments and abandoned buildings. Locals still are afraid of walking close to the KGB building and keep horrible memoirs of the past.

In this picture, I show the division of the new promise the European Union has brought to this country (even if today is somehow unstable) and the river Daugava under Vansu Bridge (built by the Soviets in 1980s). Vansu Bridge remains as one of the most iconic sights of Riga. It is often shown reflected in the beautiful Daugava during the sunset from the old town. This picture is taken under the bridge, in a space lost between the touristic old town and some rusty stairs that lead pedestrians on the bridge to cross to the other side of the river.

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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