ALEJANDRO SOLIS

Apr 4

I am Alejandro Solis, originally from San Salvador, El Salvador ('96). I currently live and work in the same city; my passage through the noisy, colorful, and sometimes agitated streets make me more observant and stealthy when photographing what for many is insignificant, but for me, they can tell you something, at the moment I am in a not very eternal pause as I usually say, accommodating my ideas a bit and enjoying life with my wife.

When and where did you start photographing?

AS: It is possible that it started about 5 years ago, but since I was in high school, I used to carry with me a digital point-and-shoot that a cousin had given me at that time; I remember photographing moments of my classmates, friends, and, as always, situations or things that caught my attention, I don't know, that feeling of always having a camera with me has always been there, it's an impulse that comes from before, that need to capture the rare and beautiful things in life.

Who has been the reference for your photography?

AS: My beginnings inspired me with the photography that flooded Tumblr in 2010, full of those banal but attractive photos, and I had no familiar author to inspire me. I was also very inspired by the work of certain photographers from my same city who used to go downtown to take some photos of the street; other authors would be Daniel Arnold, Garry Winogrand, and the current wave of New York photographers. As I became informed and consumed more visual material, I began establishing the bases and references that impacted me the most.

“desire that predominates when pressing the shutter is to make clear what I captured, that this moment or moment of life can be striking for those who see it, that they can perceive for a moment the emotion or pleasure that”

What do you want to convey through your images?

AS: A desire that predominates when pressing the shutter is to make clear what I captured, that this moment or moment of life can be striking for those who see it, that they can perceive for a moment the emotion or pleasure that I felt when being There, I think that there is still a long way to go to reach that point in which the viewer stays a moment longer watching the work, but I know that I am on the right track.

How are your life experiences reflected in the symbols that we see in your photographs?

AS: Beyond symbolizing something, they recount spontaneous moments on the street, with my family, or at work; I always try to keep a little of what irreversibly marked me in my daily life.