He holds a degree in Communications from the University of Lima. In the late 90s he took courses with Billy Hare and Antonio Ramos at what was once the emblematic Antonio Gaudí Institute.
In 2000 he traveled to the United States, and after three years of receiving individual advice from photographer Stephen Shore, he obtained an MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York (SVA). It was in NY where he received the prestigious Aaron Siskind Scholarship twice, participating in various exhibitions in spaces such as the Brecht Forum and the White Box gallery. In 2001, after the 9/11 attacks, he was part of the digitalization area of the “Here is New York” project (A Democracy of Pictures). His work in “Here is New York” is included in the Collection of the Library of Congress of the United States (Washington DC), the Collection of the New York Historical Society (NY), and the Collection of the Brooklyn Arts Council (NY).
His work is present in important collections such as: the Library of Congress of the United States, the New-York Historical Society, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Contemporary Art Collection of the Museum of Art of Lima (MALI), the Jan Mulder Collection, the Jorge Villacorta Collection, the Collection of the Peruvian-North American Cultural Institute (ICPNA), and the Latin American Photo Library (FoLa, Buenos Aires).
