Biography

I was born in Cuba and grew up in Mexico City.  While growing up in Mexico City, we lived very near to an art house movie theatre and I used to sneak out late at night and watch all of this great foreign movies with directors like - Fellini, Bunuel, Antonioni and Kubrick.  There was nothing else in this world I wanted to do more than to be behind a film camera.  When I was 18 years old, I had an accident and lost vison on my right eye.  At that time, I felt my dream of being a cinematographer was over.  I took up photography because I thought it was my only choice to being behind a camera.  I graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography and I started a commercial and fashion photography carrier.

I worked in Mexico City, New York and San Francisco, I learned so much from working with amazing professionals, from lighting and composition to storytelling with a single image.   More importantly, I learned not to place limitations on myself.  I realized that you have to fight for your dreams and decided that one eye was all I needed to look through a viewfinder to create images.  I sold all of my photography equipment and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a Cinematography career. 

For the next twelve years, I worked on feauture films and documentaries in Los Angeles.  We also lived in Hawaii, where our son Lucian was born.  We now reside in San Juan Island since 2017.