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So my very good friend and beautiful model, Hollie Jagen, from Photogenics in Los Angeles, and now signed with Wanted Model Management (www.wantedmm.com) in Mexico City has been hanging out with me over the past couple weeks. We did a quick test the other night after my friend and talented photographer Jerry Balderas left some Kino flows in the studio. No makeup, no hair, no assistants… Haha really off the cuff but here is one of the shots. Enjoy.

So part of this new move in rebuilding my whole book has been the process of moving to Mexico City from Queretaro. Mexico City is like the Hollywood of latin america and the epicenter of where the work and talent is located. Without a doubt over the past month I’ve had a crazy roller coaster ride of uncertainty both in living and work situations. I have had amazing friends who’ve offered rooms and couches in their houses, people who’ve given me opportunities to work, and tons of really supportive people who’ve helped me along the way in all aspects. I really appreciate the support, help, and patience everyone has given me. I really do.

Moving to a new place is never easy… picking up a year ago and moving to Queretaro was a tough choice and one that I knew I had to do in this multi-phase process of getting to where I want to be with my work. I luckily had family in Queretaro when I moved that supported and helped me more than I could ever have imagined. BUT this move to Mexico City has been a lot harder for me. I only know only a handful of people and have no time to be out making new friends, I don’t know the city so I am constantly getting lost, and have been in this constant process of looking at apartments and trying to find a decent place to settle down….all while trying to continually find more work to be able to pay for everything…

Its hard having to start fresh… again.

So I’ve decided to start from scratch with my portfolio… its kind of a crazy thing to do as a photographer… building a good portfolio takes time and hundreds of pictures…BUT I finally can start working on photography that I want to work on and build my portfolios in the areas that I want to focus in, targeted to my client base. I know its something that as a photographer you always should be working on, but my focus in what I want to do has changed over the past year or two which has led me to this decision. Like people say, dress for the job you want… us photographers have to shoot for the job we want. Its kind of liberating… its that feeling you get when you re-arrange your living room into a cool new style after being in the same layout for a year or two… also very motivating, there is a lot to do.

This has been actually something I’ve been wanting to do for about a year and a half now and most of the reason why I moved to Mexico. Fortunately, I reached this point sooner than I anticipated and with the amazing people I’ve met over the past year this process of re-invention will be easier to achieve.

For the next month or two since I won’t have my full site up and running Im going to switch over to a blog format. I want to still be able to update everyone with the work and pictures Im doing but since this is going to be a process Im going have to wait until i have a solid portfolio up.

w00t really excited.