Your name
Alberto de Jesus
Place of birth
Veracruz, México
Place where you live now
Mexico City, México
3 words to describe you
Intimate , cryptic and surrealist
Why do you take pictures?
Since I started doing photography when I was 11 I noticed that photography and storytelling were very interesting topics for me and after a while I found in them an opportunity to transform reality, fears and dreams into a whole new world. But I also realized that photography became my favorite way to understand the world that surrounds me and also a place where I can claim the only thing that belongs me in this life : the way I see
Where do you get your inspiration?
Basically from everywhere. In this case with Sacrilegio I have a specific point with life's experiences and the meaning of sins related to the catholic context of Mexico's society; but generally I'm inspired by other ways of art and those days of wandering the uncertain. Music and the color red are very important to my exploration but also nature, love, frustration, some feelings I perceive in my generation or the idea that I can transform something through light.
Who are your influences?
I have a lot and not all of them are photographers but in this moment I'll mention : Bosch, Tim Walker, Daniella Rosell, David Uzochukwu and Mexican singer Cuco Sanchez.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
It depends on the creative intrigues that I have and it also comes from some issues about life that I feel are complex and an important part of my development as a human/artist , and I can understand them better after a dialogue through photography. In that sense, the subject is very related with the moment where my life is. So it can always be different because sometimes I want to talk, others I just want to be silent and understand, or maybe just appreciate or experiment.
What impact would you like your art to have?
My art comes mostly from this personal dialogue with my life, so I think that most of the "impact" that I would like it to have is related to very subjective and intimate parts of me. But if it could impact in different ways, I guess I would like it if my work could make someone decide to follow their real creative inner voices or just remember them and that it's ok to transform the unpretty parts of being alive into art.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch
Is there anything you want to add?
Sacrilegio is coming soon
