Axander Vazquez has been a teen artist for Artists For Humanity since late 2021. Ever since he could remember, he’s been obsessed with art, whether it is drawing, painting, videography, or photography. It has always interested him. He attributes a lot of his creativity to his grandfather. Throughout his childhood, he watched his grandfather create beautiful artwork from scratch like sculptures, chairs, drawings and much more. Watching his grandfather create these pieces of art inspired him to make art. By 2021, he fell in love with photography and soon discovered Artists for Humanity, where he was able to express his artistic vision.

I am an abstract photographer. My art mainly focuses on making ordinary everyday things into something extraordinary, something that makes you look twice. For most of my work, I love to use double exposures. It helps me create something unique by merging two images into one.

I want people to see my work and feel something unique. In order for me to do that, I put a lot of my emotions and feelings into each and every piece. It’s something that I recently discovered that I was able to do because every time I asked someone about what they felt when they looked at a picture of mine, they described exactly what I felt at the moment I took the picture.

Making art in general matters to me because I get to express myself through art and create things that are unique to me. Each one of my artworks has a different feeling inside of them. Some will give you a feeling of nostalgia while some will make you feel calm and safe. That’s something that makes a photograph beautiful and makes me very passionate about this art form.