AJ is a self-taught photographer from Mexico City. His work is based on visual explorations with lights, colors and movements, always looking for a more natural, organic and simple image, sustained in documentary processes. For him materiality is very important.

 

He began his career in photojournalism and portraiture, eventually moving into fashion photography, editorial and commercial. He’s currently the Creative Director of the content agency Andayvé, specialized in hotels and tourist destinations, where he has worked for brands such as Marriott Group, Fendi, OMET Desing, among others.

 

His editorial work has been published nationally and internationally in newspapers, magazines and digital media, El País Spain, L'Officiel Lithuania, Reforma newspaper from Mexico to name a few.

 

He was part of the group of mentors in the Editorial Fashion Photography Diploma of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Mexico City, 2016-2018.

 

At the same time, he dedicates time to personal and artistic projects, addressing other ways to communicate his perception of his life, spiritual concepts, mysticism, eroticism and more; inspired by a conceptual form of matter and minimalism.

 

He has collaborated with architecture studios and interior design agencies, whose work has been published in specialized print and online magazines such as Wall Paper Mag, Financial Times and more.

 

From 2015 he carries out his own editorial project that compiles a series of editorial portraits of sculptors and plastic artists in Mexico.