I'm Felipe.
Mexican by birth, I have had the opportunity to live and enjoy different cities and with this different ways of seeing and conceiving the world: Mexico City, Philadelphia, PA, currently I llive in the City of Miami, Fl. USA.
Architect and Landscape Architect by profession and Photographer by conviction, I have dedicated the past 10 years trying to see and understand the world in a different way: through the lens of my camera, taking every opportunity I have had in recent years during my trips, that I have been able to do. And of which I have tried to show here briefly.
Mexicano por nacimiento, he tenido la oportunidad de vivir y disfrutar diversas ciudades y con esto diversas formas de ver y concebir el mundo: la Ciudad de México, Filadelfia, PA, y actualmente resido en la Ciudad de Miami, Fl. USA.
Arquitecto y Arquitecto Paisajista de profesión y Fotógrafo por convicción, he dedicado los pasados 10 años a tratar de ver y entender el mundo de una manera diferente: atravéz del lente de mi cámara, aprovechando cada oportunidad que he tenido en los últimos años durante los viajes que he podido realizar. Y de los cuales he tratado de mostrar aqui brevemente.
Where I come from....
I was born in Mexico City, a little bit over 50 years ago when the way of seeing the world and communicating with it was limited in the best of the cases to a black and white television, the regular mail and a good newspaper. Technology as we know it today had not reached the Mexico of my childhood and the world of photography was limited to a roll of film with 36 photographs of which you only had one shot and you had to wait at least a week for it to be developed. We have changed a lot in everything and with it the way of seeing and relating in this world since those days.
What has not changed in the Mexico where I come from is the diversity of colors, shapes, smells, flavors, cultures, etc. roots that are inside me, and that enriched my way of being as a person and my daily search as a photographer.
Yo nací en la ciudad de México, hace poco mas de 50 años cuando la forma de ver el mundo y la comunicación con este se limitaba en el mejor de los casos a una televisión en blanco y negro, al correo y a un buen periódico. La tecnología como la conocemos hoy en dia no había llegado al México de mi infancia y el mundo de la fotografía se limitaba a un rollo de película de 36 fotografias del cual solo se tenia un disparo y había que esperar al menos una semana para que fuera revelado. Mucho hemos cambiado en todo y con ello la forma de ver y de relacionarnos en este mundo.
Lo que no ha cambiado en el México de donde vengo es la diversidad de colores, formas, aromas, sabores, culturas, etc. raíces que estan dentro de mi, y que enriquecieron mi forma de ser como persona y mi búsqueda diaria como fotógrafo.
What I look as a photographer....
What my lens seeks is the difference in what surrounds me, the essence of something beyond the superficiality of what my eyes can see with the naked eye. It can be from a detail in an immense landscape, the colors in a sunset, the shapes produced by everyday life such as the breaking of the waves, the water falling or the stones on a path.
In everything that surrounds us there are unique and minimal details that we sometimes fail to perceive and marvel at and that is what my lens likes to photograph.
Lo que mi lente busca, es lo diferente en lo que me rodea, la esencia de algo mas allá de la superficialidad de lo que mis ojos pueden observar a simple vista. Puede ser desde un detalle en un paisaje inmenso, los colores en un atardecer, las formas que produce lo cotidiano como el romper de las olas, el agua cayendo o bien las piedras en un camino.
En todo lo que nos rodea hay detalles mínimos y únicos que a veces dejamos de percibir y maravillarnos y eso es lo que a mi lente le gusta fotografiar.
The Process
Connections
Every process of creation begins with the understanding of how we connect and reconnect ourselves with our roots and our personal experiences. We can not create if we do not understand how to make this connections.
Understand who you are.
Concept
A concept is the most difficult part of the creation process, we never now how or when it comes but when you find it, gives sense and coherence to the final product of your work.
Always open your eyes.
Creation
What you create not always is understood by everybody or people understand what was the concept you had, but what has to satisfy you is that this process of creation fulfills your feelings, and your expectations.