My roots are in street photography. That is where I learned to see. Timing, anticipation, observation. Reading a room before anything happens. Waiting for the moment without forcing it. Shooting became a form of meditation, a way of moving through the world with intention and awareness. That mindset never left. It just found its way into every other kind of work I do. Over ten years of working with people across every kind of setting, from street photography to luxury events, has sharpened both the technical and the human side of this work. Lighting, composition, and camera craft developed alongside something just as important. The ability to collaborate, to make people feel comfortable, and to turn a shared vision into something real. Every project is treated as its own thing. That has never changed. That body of work has led to placements in Wallpaper, Cultured, and Surface, and to clients that include Piaget, BMW, The Peninsula Hotel, Lalique, Minotti, Molteni&C, and many others. Delivering on every brief, every time, is something I am proud of. The clients I work with tend to be the some of the best at what they do. Creatives, founders, talent, brands. What I do best is meet them where they are and channel that energy into images that actually represent who they are or what they have built. The best sessions are collaborative. When that happens, the work reflects it. My influences run wide. The rhythm of jazz and hip hop. The mechanical precision of a well built car. The feelings invoked by a good film. The artistry and storytelling of Japanese anime. All of it finds its way into how I see and how I shoot. I first understood the power of a photograph as a kid, sitting at my grandparents' house in Manila, flipping through old photo albums. Something about those images stayed with me. The way they held people, places, and moments that would have otherwise disappeared. I moved to Los Angeles in my teenage years and the city changed everything. It gave me a perspective I could not have found anywhere else. Two worlds, two ways of seeing, one lens. LA is a city where anything feels possible and that energy lives in everything I shoot. I held my first camera at 13 and felt it immediately. The ability to connect, to celebrate, to make something real out of what was right in front of me. From there it never stopped. I was shooting friends, family, anyone who would let me. Learning by doing, experimenting constantly, building something without fully knowing what it was yet.
Photography is still taking me for a ride. I would not have it any other way.