Today we’d like to introduce you to Hugo Meza Soto.
Hugo, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
I’m a director and photographer from Tijuana, Mexico. I moved from Tijuana to the USA 6 years ago, and since then, I reside in Oceanside, CA. At some point in my life start felling interested in visual storytelling and decide to make a move towards that which wasn’t easy since a cultural point there where some push back from families and friends. But that’s where my heart was and start studying communication in a school in Tijuana after two years married and move. Finally, here in the USA, decide to keep following my passion and interest, attend a filmmaking school and after graduation took a photography class to keep expanding my knowledge on creating imagery and tell stories. Since then, keep working to bring stories through images, also work as a freelance and personal projects. Try to expand and keep pushing to the ultimate goal that is one day be able to create a feature movie. Until that moment comes, I will keep exploring ideas, stories, and capture moments.
Can you give our readers some background on your art?
At the moment, my focus is in photography just because that’s where my ideas push me. Portraiture, street photography, and documentary photography. From time to time, I will do Video production work, personal and paid. On my work always try to communicate a sense of desolation, melancholy, and loneliness combined with stylistic, sober, and realistic visuals. Sometimes trying to bring to life fictional character inspired by movies and people that I know in real life. All this is not to be taken that I’m a sad person, but sometimes I feel in general in media and society make you feel, that having all the feeling that I told you before, are wrong and you need to be happy 24/7. To me, that sounds ridicule, exaggerate, and crazy. These feelings are necessary for our development as human beings. Also, when I work with models or people always try to look something different. How many times have we seen the same face, the same story? The world is so big and diverse so its time to share those faces and their stories.
What would you recommend to an artist new to the city, or to art, in terms of meeting and connecting with other artists and creatives?
I agree that as an artist sometimes we get caught in the creative process and our own world, but we live in a world where communication is so immediate and your not limited by the physical space. Instead of scroll endlessly on your social media app, try to message other artists that you admire and follow, ask about their creative process and work. Most likely is gonna answer back, find a group around your area. Recently find a film photography gathering in a coffee shop, and it’s being awesome, meet new people with the same interested and different styles on their photography.
What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
At the moment, people interested in my work can follow me on Instagram (@hugomezasoto) and visit my website www.hugomezasoto.com or on youtube (hugomezasoto), recently started a film photography channel there. You can support me sharing my work around your friends and soon would put on sale some prints on my website.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.hugomezasoto.com
- Phone: 7604213573
- Email: filmhink@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hugomezasoto
- Other: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFe9oRc4QzZSVRvbg97pA2A?view_as=subscriber
Image Credit:
Models:
Tim Bechtold
Sydney Stevens
Kristin B
Ravi Pascal
Scarlette
Ila Zargham
Mutsumi
Anna Pedersen
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