Meet Aaron Sosa | Photographer & Teacher / Interview of Shoutout LA, EEUU
We had the good fortune of connecting with Aaron Sosa and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Aaron, can you walk us through the thought-process of starting your business?
I have been working independently since approximately 2007. In the beginning I worked for many years for different institutions in my country Venezuela. Always as a photographer. Then I started to work for international photo agencies. One of the most important was the German News Agency DPA. Then I decided it was time to work on my own and I built up a portfolio of clients both in my country and internationally. In 2010 I moved to Panama City and started to have many more international clients. Among them, DHL, Hivos, INTEL, Financial Times, Travel + Leisure Magazine, VOGUE Magazine, Norway’s Business Daily, Bloomberg Businessweek, DEME Group, The New York Times, Air Canada Magazine, among others.
Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
Since I was a child, it was always clear to me that I wanted to be an artist. It was not easy. Deciding that you want to be an artist in Latin America and trying to make a living from your art is very difficult. I think the secret is that your work leaves your country and can be seen in other countries. I have been much more recognized internationally than in my own country. Then comes perseverance, it is a mixture of 3 very important things. Talent, perseverance and responsibility. It is clear that talent is not everything.
Nowadays I dedicate myself more to teaching, I am a photography teacher and I founded my own school called IMAGO. In IMAGO the teaching is virtual. I work with a group of teachers and we all offer workshops to sensitize the participant to the photographic fact. Philosophy, visual analysis, visual narrative. We try to train photographic authors or artists. We do not only teach photographic technique, we go much further than that.
At the same time I continue to work on personal projects, publishing books, holding photography exhibitions and photographing for personal issues and concerns. One of my most important projects is a series of Portraits of Holocaust Survivors that I have been working on for the past 13 years. I have portrayed almost 60 survivors between Venezuela, Uruguay and Argentina. I am still portraying survivors in Argentina and my next step is to travel to Chile and Brazil to continue this project. This is the project to which I am dedicating more time because the survivors are very old and time is an important factor.
Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
In the city where I currently live is very small. I have been living in Montevideo – Uruguay for 5 years. More than taking him to walk around the city I think I would take him to other cities in Uruguay. Uruguay has incredible natural beauties, it is a perfect country to go around and enjoy its natural beauties.
Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I would like to dedicate it to my teacher in photography, Ramon Grandal. To him I owe much of what I am today.
Website: https://www.aaronsosaphotography.com/
Instagram: https://instagram.com/aaronsosaphotography
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronsosa
Twitter: https://twitter.com/aaronsosaphoto
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aaronsosaphotography
Youtube: https://youtube.com/@AaronSosa
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