Today we’d like to introduce you to Raul Rivero.
Hi Raul, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I am a Texan born who moved to Mexico City at a very young age. I grew up, study, and got married in Mexico.
From a young age, I loved the visual arts. As soon I finished high school, I started to work at the family advertising agency. Then in 1988, I got a part-time job at the Mexican Film Institute as CGI artist and in the Consumer institute where I created computer graphics and animation for TV Shows. Since that time, I worked in different TV Networks where I created visual content for TV shows social media sites. As freelance, I also created digital visual content for magazines, retails stores, and plays.
In 2016 I decided to move back to Texas and establish my new home in Allen, where I am trying to work as a freelance commercial and portrait photographer moving from videography to still photography, where I found my own style.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Everything I learned it had been by my own. With a lot of reading and practice at the right places. Also, I always had my parents’ support, so to be honest, I only had to deal with people who thought that a guy without a career couldn’t develop or archive professional goals. But they were wrong. Also moving to a new city and “different” country at the age of 48 it wasn’t easy, started form 0 all over again gave me the opportunity not to make the same mistakes I made in the past.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar, what can you tell them about what you do?
What do I do… That is a complicated question. I am a carpet technician and a sales boat representative. Both jobs pays my bills and give me the chance to build my career and business as a visual storyteller. I am proud to never give up and be positive. I know who I am and what I achieved in the past, like awards, trending topics, and new ways of narratives in social media. All that happened when I worked for more that 10 years in a broadcast TV Network. Creating content mainly for Soap Operas and TV Shows.
When I moved to Allen, I had to find a way to be different from other photographers. Not only have to deal with people with smartphones or who thinks that a photographer just click a shutter button. A good camera doesn’t create a photographer, just like a typewriter doesn’t create a writer. You have to practice, find your own style, practice, be loyal to yourself, find something or someone who inspires you, and… more practice.
If you had to, what characteristic of yours would you give the most credit to?
Definitely that I am a creative and reliable professional. I like to work without supervision; I like the responsibility to develop something.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.raulriverophotography.com
- Instagram: @raulriverophoto
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/raulriverophotography
- Twitter: @RaulRiveroPhoto
