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I’m Valeria Alejandra, living in Colorado Springs, CO since 2012, but i was born in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México.

A popular question is if  I went to school for photography or if Im photographer, and the answer is no, I did not. Well, I completed 4 semesters of photography analogue and digital as part of the Degree on Graphic Design, but i do not have a Photographic Degree or deep knowledge on photo.
Everything I know I learned through books, since my childhood I liked to see books or magazines with pictures and paintings.
My Equipment: I currently use a Canon T2i, and in the past I’ve used a Canon A1, AE1, Sony Cybershot TX5 and a few vintage film cameras like Diana Mini and also the Ipod if it counts. I’m not the most technically photographer, I don´t know much about light and numbers, in fact I do not like to use flash, i love the natural light, that is were i find the real magic.
I love to print and develop, I think is like cooking without measures just with instinct. But also love digital. I like to experiment, using peepholes, cardboard tubes, glasses like kaleidos or everything that modify images.
I think that I don´t have a style, graphically and photographically, so I don´t pretend to create a big stories with my images, I don´t want to say something on specific, or that someone likes my work, I just make my thing and thats all. If you found something special and do you enjoy it, thats a big plus for me. I don´t consider myself as artist or professional photographer.
I fell in love with photography when I was 8. When I was elementary school I carried in my backpack the photo album of my family, without my mom knew it, I liked to see pictures and show the pictures to my friends. When I was teenage I loved to cut Landscapes or Street Situation from the National Geographic magazines and then I attached real photos taken by my mother or my sisters, creating another “photography”.
Around 10 I got my first film camera, and though it was automatic, a vintage Kodak with 110 magazine I loved it. I remember I did a fashion session with my nieces, It was very pathetic, but for be the first ones now I think they were amazing!
I do many self-portraits, because I have not many friends or people around, I also believe that not many people could be open to my ideas, those ideas sometimes rare to portrait”…  inspiration continues here