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“If that’s the case it’s not a When I first reached out to you, you with skateboarding. Landscape,
men�oned that you are currently
people, urban life. What is driving
this desire or is this part of your job
not shoo�ng due to the pandemic.
bad way to say ‘Adiós’.” How do you support your family as a professional photographer?
financially during this challenging
Mostly personal mo�va�on. I just like
�me? photography and I like building
I’m not shoo�ng much stories with them. Many people think
skateboarding, because I can’t travel I only shoot Skateboarding because
overseas or around Europe without that’s been my main job, but I’ve
that 10 day lockdown upon arrival. been shoo�ng a lot of other stuff
I’ve done a bit of skateboarding in during the past 20 years. Most of
France, but that’s about it. But I do those stories were done while I was
other photography jobs here and doing other jobs too.... so that links
there, and the pandemic has been to what I men�oned earlier. To me
great in that sense because it’s these photos are much more
opened some new doors. important in my life and say more
about me than the actual photos I
was doing for those jobs.
What are some of these other paid
jobs you do?
Most remarkable was with the One of the stories is called ‘Kings of
Academy of Cinematographic Arts Ksar’. Ksar is a place in Tunisia where
and Sciences of Spain. You’ll be able the filmed parts of Star Wars
to see some of the photos on TV at Episode 1 ‘Phantom Menace”.
the Spanish Goya Awards, next Assuming you are into Star Wars or
th
Saturday 6 . It was pre�y amazing to is this purely coincidental?
meet and shoot all these famous Ksar is an amazing place with wild
actors in Madrid. street kids. I was there for a week
and really enjoyed it. My good friend
Julien Bachelier organized this trip to
On your website you have a range of
bring boards and shoes to the kids of
‘stories’ that have nothing to do
that area, and teach them
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