I was born in Colombia and I live and work in Oslo. I studied photography at Bergen National Academy of Arts. I recently have published my second photo book, “Narcos & Homes”, and my video installation “Accidentally I got a GoPro” was awarded with Bildende Kunstneres Hjelpefonds (BKH) Fotokunstprisen (Photo Art Price) this year. I have participated in various collective exhibitions and has presented my work international, at Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, in Hong Kong, Helsinki, Copenhagen, New York and Oslo, at Oslo Kunstforerning, Noplace, Fotogalleriet, Galleri BOA and Galleri Brandstrup. My work is inspired by memories from my childhood and personal stories. By approaching the documentary genre from a subjective perspective, I explore visual and narrative strategies and the interpretation of reality.

I am mainly working with photography and video. My practice is influenced by the documentary genre and focuses on personal stories, many of which are drawn from my own family. With these personal perspectives, I do not attempt to tell an objective story. My interest is rather to explore how a person experiences and remembers a specific event, and how this experience and recollection speaks of their immediate and broader social and cultural context. This allows me to investigate the boundaries between fact and fiction, local and global, private and public.

Working with personal stories or experiences is interesting for me because it generates a tension between the individual versus the collective. The individual as an accumulation of personal experiences. And the collective as the person who belongs in a cultural and socio-political context and a particular moment in history.

I work with text because it makes it possible to add to photographs and moving images other layers of the story that are not explicit and at the same time strengthens the presence of the person behind the story.