Byc.foto

Byc.foto | Renewable Energy | 2025

Can you tell us about the moment when you realized that everyday objects could become your artistic language?

Photography is an art form that has always caught my attention. I am very observant and like to notice the details of everything I see: the stroke of a brush, a mark on a piece of pottery, a stone that looks sculpted because it is so worn… Everything around us are objects that have a use or utility on their own, but when two seemingly disparate objects are brought together and “something new” is created, my gaze is awakened and, beyond the use for which they were separately conceived, the objects offer infinite possibilities: I would say that they are excellent actors who can play masterful roles, and the same object—because of its shape—can be a Christmas tree one moment and a candle waiting to be lit the next.

How did the pandemic influence your transformation into “Byc.foto”?

When the pandemic was declared, I was taking a photography course and had work projects to do; I went from studio portraits and still lifes to working at home with what I had; I joined one of the many photography groups that were created on Instagram with daily challenges such as “curtains” and “chocolate,” and little by little, Byc.foto began to contribute a new way of looking at and seeing what already existed beyond the obviousness of curtains or a bar of chocolate.

Byc.foto | Learner | 2025

Your images often use metaphors. Do you begin with a concept in mind, or does it emerge while creating?

The metaphors in my photographs sometimes arise from a previous concept and sometimes come to me while I am working on a photograph, usually because the association of objects catches my attention with something I have seen and that has somehow remained in my mind.

What role does humor or irony play in your work, if any?

I would say that my photographs contain more irony than humor, and some of them have a very strong social undertone, a kind of “protest” against what surrounds us and that, morally, from my photographic style, I need to make visible.

Byc.foto | Weightlifting | 2020

How do you choose the objects you work with? Do they carry personal meaning?

I choose objects based on the concept I want to create—I look for them at flea markets, traditional shops, online…in the garden—although there are times when the objects choose me and inspire the concept on which to develop my work. an example of the latter is a cage that caught my eye on a shelf when I was browsing the store with some chess pieces in my hand, and I immediately saw the chess queen outside that cage, and the title could only be “016.”

You use no editing. How challenging is it to rely only on natural light and analog setups?

I don’t use editing in my photographs because, for me, natural light is more interesting and presents a challenge that I must face and try to overcome with diffusers and light reflectors. Sometimes I need soft light and there is bright sunshine, and vice versa, which means that a photograph can take several days to execute, depending on the image I have already created in my mind.

Byc.foto | Welcome | 2025

Is there a photograph in your portfolio that was particularly difficult or meaningful to create? Why?

Photographs in which I work with glass are always a challenge for me because of the light it absorbs and everything it reflects, but trial and error is a great teacher and I am always learning. this same learning process leads me to be cautious when addressing social issues that I want to emphasize and that can be universally understood: I put a butterfly on the heel of a woman’s shoe as an allegory to show the need to fly away from a place where one is not cared for, or I put a zipper on a microphone to ironically comment on the lack of freedom.