Azucar Shoots photographs a world where darkness and beauty hold hands. Her photos are primarily the expression of beauty in darkness, in desolation, and in abandonment. She was schooled to be a writer and traded her pencil and notebook for a camera to better convey the images from her mind’s eye (often after insomanical sleepless nights).
With these images, she creates some sort of veiled, dark stories that are sometimes absurd, sometimes shocking, but always representations of the cold, beautiful, strange world in which she lives.
Her work has been shown galleries worldwide as well as in various publications. Being an interviewer and photographer for the indie music website, tinymixtapes.com has given her the opportunity to shoot many of her favourite musicians. Several of her images were selected to be locked away in the YAHOO/Smithsonian time capsule and be viewed in 2020. As the set photographer for the independent film, Incrimination, she was able to photograph a world of mafiosos and corrupt police. Her images are in the collections of private collectors and her esteemed photographic contemporaries both in the US and abroad.
