WHO?
My name is Gloria and I am simply someone that loves to go out and take pictures in this world. Life is too short; this is something I learned at an early age when I lost my father after a long illness. This has influenced my way of seeing life. In photography, you materialize who you are. I just try to enjoy every minute. Those who know me well would say that I am a passionate tiny person.
I am originally from Barcelona and lived in New York for a couple of years and since 2014 in Perth (Western Australia). Next January my family and I will start a new adventure in the city of Nice and I don’t really know right now where we’ll all be in five years’ time. I don’t normally think more than six months ahead.
WHEN?
At the age of seventeen I was given my first camera, it was the same camera my mother had used to document our childhood, she used to photograph our everyday and create family albums that I have looked at hundreds of times. My childhood memories are like photographic frames, everything that I am able to remember starts in a tiny photo.
Without really knowing or thinking about what I was doing, I took photographs of my high school and university years. I started doing the same my mother did, recording my every day, mainly the people around me, my family, my friends, people I met on my way.
Street photography came naturally, it had to be that way.
WHERE?
The process of photography is so beautiful, it makes you see things in such a different way that pictures present themselves to you wherever you are. I am now living my last months in Western Australia and whenever I have a minute out of work and with no family commitments I get out and walk the streets, get lost and keep walking, being always open to make different kinds of pictures. I try to let things happen and capture them as they do, thinking less, trying to be intuitive, looking at everything that surrounds me.
I consider myself very fortunate that I have also full access to subjects like my family and friends, that nobody else has access to. I also have access to their hobbies, workplaces, and to their homes. It is like having my own huge photographic studio.
WHAT?
I am mostly interested about living and capturing life. I certainly know that the world is a beautiful place and I try to make beautiful photographs. I love to photograph in the streets because it’s real, it’s about reality, about people going about their ordinary lives, making ordinary scenes extraordinary.
WHY?
The camera helps me understand the world around me and my place in it, and I do it mostly for myself, because it makes me happy, because I see extraordinary things and moments thanks to the camera. While in the streets, you are going after something that will happen only once and people don’t see, turning it into something that it is properly seen and that is a wonderful feeling.
