I was fortunate to be born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a European style city
gifted with art covering many of its buildings and statues.

My uncle and Godfather was a well-known portrait photographer of Presidents. As a child, I spent endless hours in the dark room witnessing the magic of images coming to life at the bottom of containers filled with different liquids. I call it the Cinema Paradiso part of my life. Always appreciative of images, textures and style, I studied Art and Advertising at the Escuela Panamericana de Arte and oil painting with Nelly Alvarez, a well-known Argentinian painter.

As a child, I was looking forward to going to the parks and could not wait to talk to the statues, I saw them as my friends and as real human beings wanting to be understood, with their feelings and dreams. As an adult, I became a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and completed a Doctoral program in Psychology. I've spent my life helping people — listening, supporting, and working to understand what moves them. My career in mental health has been driven by a deep curiosity about the human condition: how we feel, express ourselves, what we fear, why we behave the way we do. Over the years, this curiosity has also found a home in photography.

Driven by this curiosity, I turned to photography not just as a creative outlet, but as a form of reflection — a way to process, witness, and honor what I encountered in my work and in life. My camera became a tool for observation, compassion, and inquiry.

I’m drawn to the ways we express our inner lives — not only in people themselves, but in everything we create. I find inspiration in sculpture, particularly in how artists through time have carved emotion, tension, and meaning into still forms. Flowers and gardens are some of the most beautiful expressions of mother nature. I see them as extensions of humans expressing happiness, sorrow, gratitude and appreciation. I also believe that, if the same bouquet of flowers was shown to Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet, and many other painters, they would paint it completely different….using a variety of colors, textures, materials, and mood.

Flowers are more than nature’s decoration — they speak of fragility, transformation, grief, sensuality, and celebration. To me, they are an extension of the human experience.

Through photography, I try to reflect the quiet depth of what it means to be alive: the unnoticed details, the emotional undercurrents, the connections between people, objects, and nature. It’s a way of continuing the work I’ve always done — seeking to understand and give shape to the invisible stories that live within us all. This year I turned 71 years of age and decided to share my experience and my work.

Our world has become complex, and people seem divided, but I am convinced that, deep inside, we are all the same.

Thank you for visiting.

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