Eduardo Machuca - Biography

My love and passion for photography started when I was around 12 and my father (RIP)gave me a 35mm film camera as a gift and taugh me the basics, which I later learned in deep with a corrrespondence course with the New York Institute of Photography. Since then, a camera has always been in my hand.

Life and my own decisions, however, took me into other directions and I graduated as an engineer in electronics in communications, in 1988, from the Tec of Monterrey Campus Monterrey, earned my MBA degree in 1996 from Duxx, and worked for 10 years in the telecommunications and information technology industries until in 1998, myself and a partner founded EXPERTiS, a small company devoted to providing embedded design systems services for product development.

Since around year 2002, my dormant feeling towards photography started to grow stronger. So, I bought a decent film camera and started creating images. I also wanted to learn and practice lab film development and printing, so I entered to study a course on professional photography at Colegio Americano de Fotografía "Ansel Adams" in Monterrey, of which I graduated in 2003.

In short time, I had my pictures published in El Norte newspaper, others selected for a book about Monterrey City, and others exhibited at galleries. Later, I started taking pictures of my friends and then, other people started asking me to take pictures of them.

I am now fully devoted to photography and moved from Monterrey to Merida on June, 2005. I live with my 13-years old son, Luis Eduardo, my mother who helps me, and Anastasia, my mother's little french puddle dog. I have two brothers younger than me, Alejandro, who lives in Houston, TX with his son (his wife passed away); and Gabriel, who lives in Monterrey with his wife, expecting a baby as of this writing.

Although I like and have amateurly played most sports, such as soccer, baseball, basketball, volleyball, etc., I particulary like squash and taekwondo. As a matter of fact, I was about to present my exam towards earning my black belt in taekwondo, when I moved to Merida. Things to do.

By the way, I speak Spanish, my native tongue, and English; and of course, I also write and read in both. I was born in Tuxpam, Veracruz, Mexico on October 12; my second brother was also born there, and the younger one was born in Veracruz City. However, we were all practically raised in Coatzacoalcos, Ver. until we moved to Monterrey, NL to study the university.

And, other things I like are writing, reading, listening to music, watching movies. I used to play chess but haven't done so in years. Also, I used to paint acquarelles but again, haven't done it in ages. However, I now paint with light...