So I know her subject and the poetry she makes. We've been long-term friends, very close for a while. That was for the release of Ale's book, and the book cover features a thunderstorm. I was first introduced to your work with your image of your friend Alejandra Smits, the poet and writer, which I saw on Instagram and loved immediately. I have a TikTok already, but it's not my cup of tea. I think TikTok is going to be the big thing now. I’m not waiting to see if it’s liked or not - I understand that it's just a game. Now I use it to post, but I post it and I forget about it. I had to work a lot on really finding what it means to me, and trying to detach more. It was a sense of I need to put everything on there, like, this is my value, this is my portfolio, how international agents find me without an agency. In a way, it was my main tool to build my career. I think I have a super healthy relationship with it now. I just censor the work enough so that Instagram doesn’t take it down. How would you describe your relationship with the app? Do you find it freeing, or limiting/censoring in any way? It was hard for me to picture how I could make money, how to make this into a career, but it’s the only clear thought I've ever had in my life - that I'm going to keep making images. Did you ever have any moments of doubt in those days when you were still getting a foothold? I posted it on my Instagram and it became bigger. I do a lot of performative work in my house with my friends, and the last part of it was shooting it with my camera, only then did it become a finished piece. I started photographing nature, naked friends there, and I came back to Barcelona and started creating my own ideas. I was spending time in the Mediterranean, being wild and free. I couldn't stop taking photographs of everything. But on that roll of film, everything looked like a painting. Every image was overexposed when they came back from the lab. My friend Olga gave me a camera for my birthday when I was about 21, and I shot a roll without knowing how it worked. I tried to express myself in all of these different mediums but I couldn't find a path. I knew I had a really strong creative force, but I couldn't find the path. What did photography mean to you at that age, and how did you come to realize that this was what you wanted to do with your career? It was a lot of understanding that complex story and telling it in a creative and beautiful way. I look back now, and it took so much bravery and good intentions to create that body of work. My first big job was flying by myself to the United States for the first time in my life, and spending two months there with Solange. I was sharing my personal work on social media and then that request came via Instagram DM. The first big commission was A Seat at the Table, with Solange. What was your experience like when you were first hired to do art direction and photography?
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