I was born in Valencia, in the coast of Spain in 1961. After studying commerce and work in distribution for several years, I left Spain on my late 30’s and went to live in a sailing boat. I sailed the Mediterranean , the Red Sea, and finally the Indian Ocean.
Arriving to Thailand by chance, I started volunteering with Child Watch, a local organization dealing with the darker side of the tourism industry.
Two years later I founded the Life Home Project with a group of volunteers, working to create safe shelters for women and children living with HIV/Aids, fighting discrimination, stigma and the lack of health resources. The project grew into a full facility and became funded by the Irish government, Unicef and the Rotary Club, as is still working serving the community in health and education issues.
This was the most important and life changing period of my life, as it allowed me to experience how best enact social change from a non for profit organization perspective.
In Asia I encountered the enormous environmental problems that the world is facing, and, it made me change the main focus of my work.
During this period, I was appointed Honorary Consul of Spain in Phuket, receiving the Cross of Night of the Order of Isabel La Catolica for my work evacuating Spanish nationals during the turmoils of the Yellow / Red shirts.
I moved to Nelson, New Zealand in 2009 with my wife Kung and daughter Ing, establishing our home and underwater studio in Nelson and became a New Zealand National 5 years later.
In NZ I developed a project planting forest for the NZ carbon credits scheme.
In my photographic journey I initially focused in documentary photography, as a witness of the social problems of our world, and specially South East Asia, I later turned to Fine Art Photography, but with a foot in activism media and photography on matters related to environmental issues.
I trained in Climate Change communication by the Al Gore organisation Climate Reality in Berlin 2018 and I was an active member of Extinction Rebellion until 2019.
Creating the Earth Hub Nelson, a community centre for climate change action and information, was an important milestone in my environmental action journey. Unfortunately , due to Covid 19 constrains we closed our doors temporarily in 2021. The good news is that it may open again in 2023 in a new form.
At the moment I focus on understanding and communicating the meta crisis human civilization and the planet is facing.
