Founder of FOTOGRUPO, for over three decades he has documented carnival throughout the Dominican Republic exploring the extraordinary diversity and richness of each and capturing their essence with his artistic sensibility and anthropologist’s eye. He captures carnival’s non-commercial dimensions: its authenticity, creativity and identity, and its central purpose of expressing the diversity and creativity of the people as artists and as protagonists in their own culture, where carnival is an everyday part of their own life. His work has received major awards and exhibitions have been presented nationally and internationally including, the Dominican Republic, the Ministry of Culture, French Embassy; Candido Bidó Museum; Culture Center Perelló; French Guayana; Mexico City; Santiago de Chile and Houston Texas; Louisiana; Zacatecas Mexico and Holland.