My name is Maximiliano Blanco.
I was born in 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
When I was twenty years old I met the world of photography thanks to a job in a photo lab. I started working attending the public, and little by little I became more interested in photography, to then learn to be a laboratory printer.
My first camera was at 35mm Minolta XG9. With that camera and my job as a printer in the laboratory I had the opportunity to develop and copy my own photos.
It was a great life lesson to be involved in developing photos at this time. Digital technology was beginning, and since prices were high, I was still advancing in photography thanks to my work in the laboratory.
My first jobs as a photographer were at weddings and baptisms. Although I was always taking pictures with my camera to everything that interested me.

In those moments the best learning experience was photographing homeless people. It was one of my first stories and remains current.
My biggest influences are Robert Capa & James Natchwey. I pay attention to their stories in photography.
At that time I wanted to be a war photographer. I think I had this crazy idea because I was very young. I do not think I would have the balls to be in a war.

Time passed, and I started to photograph Cycling thanks to the Japanese company Shimano.
Thanks to that client, I was able to work in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, to finally land in Colombia. My photographic equipment was advancing to have two cameras with which I work, Canon 6D and Canon 7Dmk2, together with a small group of lenses of the same brand.
In 2017, I decided to change the base, and moved from Buenos Aires to Bogota, in Colombia. I started working in extreme sports for Red Bull.
And I found the way to be a photographer, without having to be in a war, because being an extreme sport photographer, is that, extreme, like war.