Diego Pacheco
Photographs help me make meaning of my family; I take pictures of my family members because I want to show how close families can be. By capturing my family, I hope to show how dynamic we are—sometimes I can get mad or disagree, but at the end of the day my parents want us to succeed in life. Though color often expresses emotion, black-and-white can mimic old photographs and allow people to recall memories from when they were younger. Visits to museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and, the Museum of Modern Art, and work by artists such as Vietnamese American photographer An-My Lê and conceptual Filipino American artist Stephanie Syjuco have encouraged me to think about black-and-white photography differently.
I also go outside and take pictures of things I don’t see every day. For this, I’m inspired by photographers such as American photographer Brooke Bartleson, who makes wilderness photographs of wild animals and landscape photographs of sun and snow. Diego Pacheco,
Horror, 2024
Digital inkjet print
16 × 20 in. Diego Pacheco,
Reflections, 2024
Digital inkjet print
16 × 20 in.
Diego Pacheco is an eighteen year old from the Bronx and a senior at Opportunity Charter School. His favorite hobby is skateboarding in parks and around the streets of his neighborhood;he also likes taking photographs—of sunsets in particular. Diego’s dream career is to become a car and motorcycle mechanic, and he wants to start his own car-building project.