11 things to do to make your new country your new home

Find a balance between your previous life and the new. You can’t start to form a life in the new country if you have one foot there and the other at home. Here are some ways to make the adjusting better. (Why 11? It’s my favorite number) Have a piece of home with you Listen…

My Mentor/ Mi Mentora

My mentor Pilar Pedraza, is a Peruvian photographer, very talented and dedicated to everything she does. Parallel to my classes with her, I started volunteering at the social work she and Morfi Jimenez (photographer) created in a shantytown called Villa Maria del Triunfo. “Verte Mirarte” is a space where they teach children different techniques in…

My relationship with photography/ Mi relación con la fotografía

Theories and mechanisms are tedious no matter what you are learning. But, what turns tediousness into enjoyment is putting these into practice; and what turns practice into your life is the passion, the dedication and the love you develop in the process. We live in a world where there are determined patterns telling us how…

Meet the life behind the camera

Marjorie Pillar is a photographer. From editorial and producing photojournalistic books for Harper Collins like Pizza Man to educator. She takes us back in time by teaching black and white film photography at Hofstra University. Black and white film gives photography its definition; writing with light. Digital photography might have tricked people into believing that…