How is a photograph a memory versus a document of a past moment?

The main focus of my work is the study of the possibilities that photography offers to represent moments of our life experience as something dynamic instead of static or frozen in time. I show that we can represent the same moment as we really visualize and remember it; blurred, non-precise, altered and with emotions to color it. I have arrived at the realization that photographs created as memories of the past, are missing the elements of our real memories and the continuous nature of time; they look rigid and static, instead of feeling real and full of emotion as our memories do.

For the past five years I have been working on creating a project called Memories that consists in photographing memories after they have been transformed by time and life events. I change the perspective of the viewer; by conceptually moving the camera from outside to inside the self. In effect, I capture the images of our memories as they are projected internally in the mind.

My technique draws its inspiration on the premise that knowledge comes from errors, accidents and mistakes; thus, if we accept this premise and the fact that we learn from our mistakes, a work that is born from a group of mistakes has to be totally knew. A scratch, stain or dust particle on film negatives is considered an accident or a mistake and right and beautiful images cannot be printed from such negatives.  I am intrigued by the phenomena that when we combine enough errors, accidents and mistakes on each negative their nature gets transformed onto style and technique and the images deriving from such negatives are right and beautiful.