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I was born in 1975 in Cordoba, Argentina, in a Lebanese family. There I studied, majored and even worked in accounting.

Fortunately I discovered photography more or less on time. It was in Prague and it was a photo of Josef Koudelka. After that I left it all behind and started traveling, not knowing very well what I wanted to do with my life but at least knowing what I wouldn’t do ever again.

I studied photography mainly on my own, and made a Master in Photojournalism in the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. During that time I co-founded Ruido Photo in Spain and ActiveStills in Israel and Palestine. I also created a participatory photography organization called ActiveVision.org and founded the photography school Ruido Formación in Barcelona.

After some years taking photographs I finally felt that I was doing what I liked while shooting my project Neutral Fire in Switzerland. Since then I try to focus on my own long-term projects, while I make a living working as a photographer for Agence France-Presse and for several international organisations and publications.

My main interest in my projects are human beings, and I consider a very important part of my work learning new languages. That’s why I managed to speak an important amount of non-sense in English, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Italian, Catalan and Portuguese, besides an unlimited amount in Spanish.

My most important projects since 2017 have been trying to survive two atomic explosions. They are called Abril and Emil and I live with them and my wife Alejandra in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

 
 

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