I was born on September 22, 1971, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I studied International Relations. At age 21, I packed my bags, took my camera and haven´t stopped travelling all over the world filming documentaries and writing interviews and books. I am interested in almost everything; curiosity is one of the drivers in this story, but I am obsessed with two subjects: war and poverty. They are the reason I have travelled to over 40 countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

PRINT MEDIA
My first stories were written for El Cronista from Cairo and Beijing. Later I settled down in Calcutta, my home for three years, where I began to write for the newspaper La Nación. In 1998, I moved to Madrid, where I still live when I´m not wandering around the globe.
My interviews have been published in El País, Rolling Stone, Internatzionale, El Mundo, Interviú, El Correo, La Voz de Galicia, La Nación, El Cronista, Yo Donna, 20 Minutos, Siete Leguas, Viajar...
I still contribute articles to some of these publications. I have never signed an employment contract or had a steady job. With a free-lance vocation, I am free to choose topics, destinations and my wake-up hour, without bosses bothering me or asking for changes but, on the other hand, I am forced to look for work every day.

BOOKS
My first book Un voluntario en Calcuta (A Volunteer in Calcutta) came out in 2002 (published by Temas de Hoy publishing company), where I briefly describe poverty in the Indian city, with glimpses of its most sordid but also most instructive face. The title was imposed to me. I wanted another title, since the inhabitants of Calcutta are the protagonists, but I was just beginning and there was no margin for negotiation.
In 2003, Helado y patatas fritas (Ice Cream and French Fries) was published by Plaza y Janés. This book served to bring attention to the impunity with which European pedophiles acted in Cambodia. After this book, very stimulating things happened, such as the imprisonment of several of such men, though I was not responsible for it. I just wrote and recorded what was happening. Other people acted on this material. It was translated into Italian by Sperling & Kupfler.
2005 was the turn of La libertad del compromiso (Freedom of Commitment), also published by Plaza y Janés. Many times I have been asked how to break free and find one´s own path. Through seven stories of people both extraordinary and close I tried to reflect on this matter. It was also an excuse to talk about the social challenges of our time.
In 2007, Llueve sobre Gaza (Rain on Gaza), a report on the blockage that began to affect the Palestinian territory seen through the testimonies of its people, was published by Ediciones B. Such testimonies were compiled between July and September of 2006, when I was in the strip covering the Summer Rain military operation, which resulted in over 450 casualties, half of which were women and children.

TELEVISION AND RADIO
In 1997, I wrote and shot in India, together with the musician Nacho Cano, the documentary Calcuta, vida en la estación de la muerte (Calcutta: Life in Death Season), which premiered in TVE. Since then, I have not ceased making interviews and filming documentaries. Though writing is my natural medium, where I am more comfortable and feel that narration has more layers and depth, I am seduced by the vast reach of television. Among others, I have contributed to El Mundo TV and Canal Plus. At this last network I worked with Jon Sistiaga. In 2008, I created Contramedia Films.
One of the last audiovisual works is Villas Miseria (Shanty Towns), which premiered in 2009 in Odisea channel. This documentary describes the daily life of the slums of India, Argentina, South Africa and Kenya. The narrator´s voice belongs to actor José Coronado.
In 2011 La guerra contra las mujeres (War against Women) was completed. The fruit of a three-year shooting in Sudan, Congo, Ruanda, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kenya and Uganda, it is the first documentary comprehensively addressing rape as a war weapon, from ancient times to these days.
In radio, I contributed to Cadena Ser and RNE.

INTERNET
Since June 2006, I have posted photographs, videos and texts almost every day in the Viaje a la guerra (Trip to War) blog of the 20 Minutos newspaper.
Somalia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestinian, Israel, Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Ruanda, Kenya, South Africa and the slums (favelas) of Rio de Janeiro have been some of the conflicts that have given rise to this so-called road book, a hodgepodge where ideas are shaped and stories and data are gathered to later become interviews and documentaries.
A series of documentary shorts entitled Mujeres que cambian el mundo (Women who Change the World) started to be exhibited on the website of El País in February 2011.

PHOTOGRAPHY
I am not a photographer but, as images are easy to the eye and I am told the light is right, I have prepared several exhibitions with interview material that has toured Spain: Calcuta bajo el monzón (Calcutta During Monsoon Season) (2001), La situación de las niñas en el mundo (Girls´ Situation in the World) (2004), Mujeres que cambian el mundo (Women who Change the World) (2005, 2010, 2011) and El mundo desde un barrio de chabolas (The World from a Shanty Town) (2006).

AWARDS
I have received one or two awards, undoubtedly undeserved. In 2010 I received the Premio Internacional de la Academia de Televisión de España (International Award of the Spanish Television Academy), and in 2011 Viaje a la guerra was nominated by Deustche Welle as best blog for the prestigious Bob Awards.
However, the only meaningful award is to be able to travel, know, share and, if luck permits, bring attention to certain matters.