hailing from palm springs ca. i began my photo career as a senior in high school. but truthfully, it goes further back then that. i picked up a skateboard towards the end of the 99' season and subsequently, my first video camera. i wanted to film everything, and i did. with a cam perma-fixed to my right hand i gained hours of footage. everything from skate sessions to unfamiliar dimensions that would later turn into mini movies i'd edit myself.
flash forward a few seasons. my love, creativity and my ability to come up with ideas and make them tangible grew exponentially and i started flying under the name, DayinthelifeTv. i did video parts for a specific few but at the same time i was going through a transition where i was begining to focus much more on photography and less on video. so with a hand me down canon t90 film slr i started shooting anything and everything. i spent hours in the dark room. trail and error, trial and error, trail and success. i purchased my first digital slr in the fall of 07' and the game changed completley. i was now spending more time out in the evironment and less time developing. new ideas, now possible. sunsets, landscapes, and architectural all day. long exposures, among my favorites to shoot. nightscapes, i had those on lock. all these environments, however, would play little help to what eventually id fall into.
I joined forces with the status group, a local promoting company. and started shooting nightclubs and events. i was submerged into a whole new element filled with challenges that forced me to evolve. quick on the trigger, account for variable change, smoke, strobes, cryo blasts, leds, extreme light and no light at all, all while everything and everyone around me moved at sonic speeds. those slow moving sunsets and still buildings where long gone. big shot photographer turned rookie in a matter of seconds. i got good though... real good. and by my first year in i had shot every major club and event in the coachella valley and surronding areas. in a way, we pioneered the photo club life in the desert. i always told myself though that id do it for the love not for the lifestyle. so when the lifestyle wasn't what i loved, i grew distant from the entire nightlife scene and turned my focus somewhere else.
around that same timeline i moved down to san diego for photo school. though it was short lived i realized that my imagination wasn't fired up by academic tuition. so i quickly moved 120 miles up the coast and landed amongst the beaches of los angeles. tossed in the concrete jungle, what a long way from nightclub highlife. id shoot around, back to the basics, but something lacked. i spent a lot of time looking up when what i craved was to look down... but how? you don't just walk up to a rooftop.
dayinthelifetv had been long in the rearview. i was intertwined with different desires, and there was so much coming at me. i was going through a period of dark times and it was hard for me to focus on one thing. i needed to reinvent and seperate myself, i needed something enigmatic, villainistic that could take over helder's ideas and make them tangible, so i created: the Dtv. dtv quickly became my creative genius. he embraced the inner villain nature that was in me and tapped into the anger and frustration that had demonized itself around me. i used him as a weapon. he took me places. what ever helder though of, imagined or dreamed, dtv made it happen. he believed. and sure enough, the first time i stepped out on that ledge and looked down, our partnership was signed in stone.
you can say photo has taken me through a plethora of environments. some of the best and rarest views one can imagine. from ear popping heights to total urban decay and everything else in between. the people and friendships that have come about have all been unique, but all with the same shared love for photo. i know I've only tapped the surface of my elegant craft. there is so much more left to be discovered. but no matter where it leads just know that we'll be there, just me and the Dtv...
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