THE WORK OF PRESENCE

WHERE EVERY IMAGE BEGINS WITH BEING THERE

Jorge Sotomayor’s images carry the pulse of real life, fleeting, unscripted, and sincere. His world is not built in studios or staged sets; it unfolds in the spaces where

emotion and imperfection meet. A wedding dance, a reflection in glass, the silence after laughter, each becomes part of his visual rhythm.

To watch him work is to see an artist who trusts the moment. He moves quietly, guided by instinct, reading light as if it were language. What defines his photography isn’t grand spectacle but presence, being there, fully, when life happens. In his frame, no gesture is minor, no detail too small.

Perhaps this comes from his roots in videography, where motion and timing are everything. You can sense it in his stills, that same awareness of sequence and rhythm, that subtle anticipation just before something begins. His photographs often feel like paused scenes: alive, breathing, mid-sentence.

“In the end, it’s all about being present, about feeling when the moment arrives.”

His approach to social and corporate events reveals not only skill but empathy. He photographs people as participants in stories larger than themselves, as part of a

living narrative that belongs equally to joy, vulnerability, and connection. Even in the chaos of a wedding, he finds order through emotion.

Outside of his professional work, Jorge’s personal photography reveals a quieter curiosity: textures, shadows, and small wonders that most people overlook.

Recently, he’s turned his lens toward the moon, that constant, unreachable subject that has captivated artists for centuries. “I asked Santa for a 150–600mm lens” he

jokes, but beneath the humor lies fascination, the desire to see more deeply, to keep looking.

His dual experience between still and moving images gives his work a unique balance. The patience of the photographer meets the intuition of the filmmaker; each frame feels like a story in motion, each film still like a photograph waiting to breathe. What unites them is the same intention, to preserve emotion before it fades, to make memory tangible.

Jorge’s work is a study in patience, in seeing what others pass by. Each photograph is an invitation to slow down and remember, that in the briefest moments, entire lives unfold.