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In my early twenties I moved abroad to Germany and later to London where I lived and worked for about ten years. I moved again, this time to Barcelona but after a while I quit my job in the IT business industry and in 2010 I got an education as a Mountain Guide in Durango, Spain. 

At the same time I developed an interest in photography, focusing on mountains, climbers, alpinists and anything related to the mountains. 

For many years my photographic work has been focused on capturing the moment while working as a mountain guide.

Photography has always interested me as a hobby but not as a professional career. For many years my photographic work has focused on capturing the moment working as a mountain guide, making nature and mountaineering my main interest.

In 2017 I joined the WOPEAK expedition with the alpinist Alberto Iñurrategi, Juan Vallejo and Mikel Zabalza in the Karakoram of Pakistan, we got involved in the rescue of a mountaineer in need. A photograph I took helped locate the missing climber. This event caused a turning point in my career, altering my practice and adding new layers of meaning to my photography beyond mere aesthetic purpose. I started wondering more about the social side of the mountains, bringing a personal need for storytelling beyond panorama mountain photography.

I decided to register for a Photojournalism course at Black Kamera Documentary Photography School (Bilbao, Spain) having as the teachers Moises Saman, Cristina de Middel (Magnum), Andoni Lubaki, Pep Bonet (Noor) and Diego Ibarra Sanchez. They gave me the first tools to introduce narrative in my photography, changing the pure landscape and the mountain activities to a new way of seeing which aims its attention to the social documentary.  

As a result,in 2020 the project “Bidassoa” was born about the Bidasoa river in my hometown Irun, a natural border between Spain and France and the issues with migration and the refugee movement. 

Being two photographs of the project selected by the curator Juantxo Egaña to be part of the collective exhibition “Errefuxiatuak” at the Fotomuseo Zarautz with photographers with Andoni Lubaki, Diego Ibarra, Javi Julio, Ricardo García Vilanova and Santi Palacios. 

In 2021 “Bidassoa” was  selected and presented in the project EnfocaH organised by Doctors Without Borders – MSF Spain “refugee and migrant populations” with the editor of the publication 5W, Anna Surinyach.

I was awarded a scholarship as a participant in the Fotoevidence Workshop in France.A workshop focused on the education of photographers to work on humanitarian missions and work with NGOs.

My photographs also appear as a documentary reference for the Open Connection project. A comic made by young migrants from the Namasté Group of Caritas Bizkaia and the illustrator Kike Infame.

Also in 2021 ARKAMEYERS was born, a collaborative project with the artist Raquel Meyers. Its projects reflect on the paradoxes of the everyday and the distant, the analogical and the digital, memory, past and future emotional landscapes, the «polite neglect» and the Anthropocene. The Interdepence Library project was selected for the Wikiriki 2022 residence. Other projects, Boria on the environmental disaster of the Mar Menor, the largest salt lagoon in Europe, have been exhibited within the human rights festival Gizazineak in Bilbao, in the Museum of Environmental Education (Pamplona), IORTIA (Alsasua), Hika Ateneo (Bilbao) or Centro Cultural Puertas de Castilla (Murcia). It is currently being published.

In 2022 the project ENFOQUE/ENFOKATU emerges with the group Namaste (youth empowerment group) of Caritas Diocesan from Bilbao. The objective is to show the reality of young migrants in a creative and artistic way, making an exhibition and publishing the result of the project.

In May 2022  Bidassoa, ruta migratoria  was presented in the AMAIA KZ Hall (Irún), produced by the Culture Department of the Irún City Council, within the Bidassoa project. An exhibition  combining my photographs with illustrations by Josune Urrutia Asua showing the reality of the border on the Bidasoa river.

In 2023 joined the project Shared Dialogues/Dialogos Compartidos with a group of scientists from Leeds University and the investigation centre bc3 (Basque Centre For Climate Change). Shared Dialogues is a transdisciplinary project which explores participatory and artistic tools to collectively reflect about ecological loss and environmental conflict experiences, in particular those related to the Mar Menor lagoon eutrophication.