Story & Lesson Highlights with Guillermo Montesinos of Photographer

We recently had the chance to connect with Guillermo Montesinos and have shared our conversation below.

Good morning Guillermo, it’s such a great way to kick off the day – I think our readers will love hearing your stories, experiences and about how you think about life and work. Let’s jump right in? What is something outside of work that is bringing you joy lately?
Doing grounding every Sunday when I ride my bike to a park here in Mexico City, walk in the grass for 20 minutes, connect with nature.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Guillermo Montesinos, I was born in Mexico City and studied high school in Oregon. After that I moved to New York City to study graphic design and photography at Parsons School of Design. I started my photography career in 1990 doing model photo tests for major modeling agencies, Elite, Ford, and Wilhelmina models. I also assisted a few fashion photographers like Robert Frame and did some printing work at Arthur Elgort studio. Currently I’m pursuing architecture and interiors photography, art reproduction photography for painters and artists, and digitizing film photography collections. My latest project was shooting for the 25th anniversary book for Six Flags Mexico.

Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. Who taught you the most about work?
Basically living in New York city at the beginning of my career was the best school that I could have ever had. Photography business was very tough and competitive in the early 90’s so I had to really hustle to try and become a professional, and learn from the pro photographers I was assisting.

What did suffering teach you that success never could?
When you are a freelance photographer, or at any other profession, there’s always suffering because you have todo a lot of work, and being a one man show gets even tougher sometimes.

Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. What are the biggest lies your industry tells itself?
I think that nowadays experience is being displaced more than ever. When I started, I used to really look up to my peers and mentors with respect and admiration. Now unfortunately “everybody is a photographer” by the use of smartphones and the availability of tutoring online to learn photography. so the lie is that not for being young and fresh will get the client the desired results on the job, I still bet on experience than technical knowledge as with current technologies.

Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. Are you tap dancing to work? Have you been that level of excited at any point in your career? If so, please tell us about those days. 
Lately the business has been tougher than ever. I was very excited back in 1990 when I was able to have access to shoot with models from those big name agencies in New York City, I felt like a rock star!

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All images Guillermo Montesinos

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