Gabriel J. Diaz Photography

I think it was my dad that inadvertently got me into photography - he gave me my first camera, a Vivitar 35mm point-and-shoot. There's a story behind that camera, and how it landed in my posession, but I'll have to tell you that one in person.

By the time I was 15, I knew I wanted to shoot models. Women have always had a major presence in my life, from the ones that surrounded me as I grew up, to the outrageously beautiful supermodels and movie stars whose images I was always ogling. A few years later, I picked up an Olympus P&S, but after seeing an Albert Watson American Photo cover of Kate Moss, I knew I needed more camera. I soon moved on to my first SLR, and now shoot primarily digital.

New Mexico, 2009

South Florida, 2011

I've continued to shoot models, and have also been shooting wildlife and wild places for over ten years, and I've been a stringer for a newspaper. I am always wanting to shoot - everything. The camera is my primary vision and my voice, the one material object - because it is so much more to me - that I don't think I could live without. Originally from Miami, I now live in Fort Lauderdale. Besides shooting, I spend what time I can traveling and writing, practically living on my motorcycle while finishing my degree in sociology; chasing dreams, moments, and the wind.

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