the power of shadow

A philosophy for documentary photography.

Canon Student Development Programme, Visa pour l'Image.

Group of four women in helmets and safety gear, dark background, night or indoor lighting, one woman showing an object to the others.

Adventure and Exploration, Guanacaste. Parque Nacional Barra Honda.

It begins in infinite space, where darkness is not emptiness, but origin.

A territory where visibility dissolves and movement settles into silence.

Person holding a tribal mask surrounded by lush green leaves and ferns.

Indigenous Culture. Buenos Aires, Puntarenas.

You can fade without leaving, move forward without trace.

People gathered around a fire at night, with banana trees in the background.

Documentary and Reportage. Boruca celebrations. Buenos Aires. Puntarenas.

Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Or stay, and allow yourself to belong.

Nighttime city street with moving cars, streetlights, and tall illuminated buildings in the background.
Group of people outdoors, including a child in the foreground and three adults behind, with trees and cloudy sky in the background.
A wooden house on stilts over water, with a cloudy sky and ocean in the background, and various containers on the deck.
Two men on a small boat filled with bananas crossing a river in a rural area with mountains and cloudy sky in the background.

Orosi, Costa Rica

Talamanca, Costa Rica

Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Cayo de Agua, Panamá

Ciudad de Panamá.

The images that emerge from this place are not impatient.

They move slowly, so meaning can remain.

A wooden pier extends over a muddy, low tide area of the ocean toward a stilt house. The house has colorful signs, with one reading 'MUELLE' and another with partially visible text. The sky is overcast with some clouds, and distant forested hills are visible on the horizon.
A mountain landscape featuring a turquoise lake surrounded by rugged rocky terrain and steep slopes, with a partly cloudy sky overhead.

Golfo de Nicoya, Costa Rica.

Ancash, Perú-

Here, nothing is incidental.

Sunset over a beach with calm waves, sandy shore, and islands in the distance.

Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Every void holds intention.

Guanacaste, Costa Rica.

Winding mountain road through green, rocky landscape under cloudy sky.
Yellow stairs on a boat with the sea in the background and a shadow of a person taking the photo.

What unfolds is not a single message but a layered experience.

Golfo Nicoya, Guanacaste

Ancash, Perú

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Mountain lake with turquoise water surrounded by rocky slopes under a partly cloudy sky.
Sunset over a calm ocean with a sandy beach in the foreground and small islands on the horizon.
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A man with glasses taking a photograph with a camera, standing next to a wooden fence post with barbed wire at dusk or dawn.

Meet the Artist

I am a documentary photographer based in Costa Rica, working primarily across Central America. My practice is rooted in long-term projects developed through sustained presence, careful observation, and close collaboration with communities.

With a background in architecture, my work is informed by an interest in culture, territory, and sustainable development, and in how time, use, and human intervention shape and transform landscapes. I focus on environmental processes, conservation, and the social dynamics that emerge at the intersection of land, culture, policy, and everyday life.

I am the founder of the Museo Indígena Contemporáneo, an independent cultural project dedicated to visual research, education, and the documentation of Indigenous cultures and territories. The project integrates contemporary technologies as tools for preservation, interpretation, and cultural continuity, while supporting long-term relationships with the communities involved.

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