hi, I’m enrique

“I cap­ture instants that you don’t see.”

My inspi­ra­tion comes from the work of many pho­tog­ra­phers, famous or not. I refer to myself as a visual sponge and like to con­stantly stim­u­late my senses. I have an equal inter­est in travel, phi­los­o­phy, words, voices, music, food, faces, typog­ra­phy, nature and much more. I use my curios­ity to stay away from con­ven­tions and am known to be eclec­tic, yet inclined to a cer­tain classism.

Born in Paris in 1967, raised in Sin­ga­pore, Eng­land, France and Switzer­land, I am the son of sev­eral cul­tures. Argen­tin­ian by my father, Eurasian by my mother, I have cho­sen to become Swiss almost as a pledge to neu­tral­ity. Since my child­hood, I have always trav­elled, first with my par­ents, then on my own after a suc­ces­sion of per­sonal events.

In 1998, struck by a high-grade can­cer and already signed off, I over­came what was my most stren­u­ous hur­dle. I started my slow recon­struc­tion with the help of a cam­era focussed on the build­ing blocks of a recov­ered life. Dur­ing many years of pho­to­graphic intro­spec­tion, my images rarely showed any peo­ple, yet were con­tin­u­ously moti­vated by them.

In 2010, another suc­ces­sion of per­sonal events helped me grow towards a new type of work, some­thing that had silently devel­oped itself over time. This was the door to por­trait pho­tog­ra­phy with a more holis­tic approach to life. This is where I am now.

Focussed on people-related pho­tog­ra­phy — mainly por­trai­ture and reportage — my work is bal­anced between per­sonal research and cor­po­rate projects. Both are inti­mately con­nected and my eye remains free, sin­cere and eager to share more every day.