I was born "South of Granada" (Spain), in Bérchules, a small mountain village belonging to the region of Las Alpujarras and located on the southern side of the Sierra Nevada National Park. In a context well described by the hispanist Gerald Brenan.

The passion for hidden reality that our invisible nature tells us about, goes back to my teen years, when I first observed a thin section of sedimentary rock through a petrographic microscope, in the laboratory where my father worked. It contained an astonishing number of microfossils of single-celled animals, petrified hundreds of millions of years ago, but which still told us about their morphology, their habitat, their biodiversity and their role in our evolutionary history.

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At the same time, the visual narrative took the form of an endless mass grave full of delicate lying beings, as a juxtaposition of scientific information and emotional energy in a tiny corner of the cosmos.
I was captivated by the expressive force and knowledge emanating from that image, and I wanted to retain the moment in my memory by capturing it with a photograph.

From then on I decided to start learning the technique and aesthetics of photography, microscopy, etc. And also to acquire the minimum scientific knowledge to be able to interpret at least a part of the information underlying the subject.

In the early stages, the assignments and collaborations I approached (University of Granada and the Spanish National Research Council), to finance my self-taught training, were predominantly scientific and documentary in nature, aimed at a specialised academic audience. The photographs were included in research papers, scientific conferences, doctoral theses and others.At this time I became a member of the Spanish Association of Technical Specialists in Scientific Photography (AETEFC) and the European Federation of Scientific Image (EFSI).