Journalist, Photoreporter, Videographer
French and Catalan, raised in Spain and in the USA, my passion for telling stories through images and narratives has led me to a career as a multilingual journalist, photographer and videographer, specialising in socio-environmental issues.
After a Bachelors in Environmental Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, I graduated with a Masters in Audiovisual, Journalism and Scientific Communication from the Univerisity of Paris Cité. My goal is to bring to life ideas that inform, inspire and generate impact, especially in projects aligned with sustainability and climate awareness.
Over the years, I’ve developed a real love for the outdoors, which partly explains why there are mostly pictures of me in a tent, looking very sweaty on this page. I am lucky to have grown up in a lets-go-camping-at-the-weekend type of family, where eating half a taco-filled with sweet-corn wrap in a dusty canyon in Mexico was your typical Sunday lunch. Growing up in the States (aka the epitome of natural parks) does have it perks. Grand spaces surrounded by trees, mountains, high above the clouds or at water’s edge has become my definition of happiness. I’ve also had the chance to travel extensively, which sparked an unsatiable curiosity to know more about different places, peoples and cultures. Mix them both and you will find me out and about, most likely up a mountain in some far off remote place.
What started off as a couple videos here and there documenting my travels with family and friends, has slowly developed into this platform: Ideas de Mar. After having accumulated a distortionate amount of pictures and stories, that I’ve kept to myself rather than share to the world, I thought it was about time I committed to sharing these impressions online.
I’m still figuring out which direction I’m going with this, but for now, let’s call it organized chaos – a place to store snippets of my time around the world and what I’ve captured in between. I guess it’s like my tent when I come back from an exhausting hike, gear is everywhere, it might be stinky and I can’t find my toothbrush, but it feels like home.
In a society that prones over-consumption, fast travel, and swiping, swiping swiping on our mobile phones, it sometimes feels as if time has disappeared, and that we are all stuck in one gigantic bubble. All I know is that time away, breathing fresh air, whether that’s in the Peruvian Andes, on a beach in Scotland or simply in your own backyard is rejuvenating. Not that I want to become a hermit, mind you. I’ve just come to appreciate slow immersive experiences over fast-paced ones. Sometimes that translates to being in picturesque places, other times it might simply be enjoying the here and now, sipping lukewarm coffee in a sunny garden.
IdeasdeMar aims to capture the raw beauty in the mundane, the candour of the honest wild. What connects humans, makes us different yet the same. How to better understand each other in order to build a more just world.
I don’t have the answers because I don’t know what questions I’m trying to find answers to. I can only hope curiosity will keep me wondering.
