Photographer.
Programmer.
Boricua.

My name is Miguel Gandía and I'm from Puerto Rico. I live with a camera on one shoulder and a code editor open on the other screen. During the day I write software; when the sun goes down — or comes up, because early mornings count too — I go out and photograph the world around me.

This blog started in 2013 as a visual travel journal. Over time it became something more: an archive of what my eye finds interesting. A reflection in a window. The texture of a wall in Old San Juan. The light cutting sideways between buildings in Manhattan. There are things other people walk right past; I can't stop photographing them.

Puerto Rico is the center of everything — its limestone canyons in Utuado, the mangroves of Culebra, the streets of Santurce covered in murals. But the lens has also taken me to Mexico (Mexico City, Oaxaca, Morelia, Teotihuacán), to Colombia, Brazil, New Orleans, New York, Virginia, Miami. Wherever there's something worth seeing, the camera comes along.

I work mostly in black and white. I like grain, hard shadows, the honesty of a scene with no color to distract you. Street photography, landscapes, a macro shot of a flower in the mountains of Orocovis, the motion blur of a long exposure from the Teodoro Moscoso Bridge. I don't have a single genre — I have curiosity.

Hurricane María changed the way I tell stories. Before and after María is how Puerto Ricans divide time. Photographing the island in ruins and then watching it rise again taught me that documenting isn't vanity. It's memory.

If you made it this far, something you saw or read resonated with you. That's enough for me. I hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed taking them.

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— Miguel Gandía
San Juan, Puerto Rico