Alexandro Rojas Sanders
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Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
University of Denver, EMAD (Electronic Media Art Design), MFA Candidate. Expected graduation in Summer 2009
University of Colorado at Boulder, Bachelor of Fine Arts Studio Arts (BASA) with emphasis on video production and film studies; Boulder, CO. 2005- 2007
Regis University, Boulder, CO. 2003-2004
Front Range Community College, Longmont, CO. 2003
Escuela Activa de Fotografîa (Active School of Photography), Technical degree in Photography with emphasized certificate on Photojournalism. Mexico City, 1996
SCHOLARSHIPS
Graduate Art Student Scholarship, University of Denver, Scholar year 2007- 2008
Top of the Class scholarship, Partial scholarship offered by the Escuela Activa de Fotografia,1996
Top of the Class scholarship, Partial scholarship offered by the Escuela Activa de Fotografia,1995
INTERNSHIPS
Boulder Adventure Film Festival, Boulder, Colorado, Currently involved, Production Assistant & Jury. (2007)
Sender Films/ Reel Rock Tour, Film Internship, marketing, post-production. (2006)
Ovo Films, Production assistant for corporate videos (2007)
EXHIBITIONS (*Solo exhibitions)
*M.E.L.T., (A multimedia exhibition about reclaiming society from a consumerist lifestyle. ) Gallery 023, Shwayder Art Building, University of Denver, CO (June3- June 5, 2008)
Juried Student / Alumni Exhibition, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO. (Jan 10 – Feb 28, 2008)
*Stop Any Time, Shinning Star Café, Nederland, CO. (2007)
Open Wall, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO. (May 2007)
Painting in Motion, Sibell Wolle Fine Arts building, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder CO. (2007)
*Mountain Lights (Slide show), Neptune Mountaineering, Boulder CO. (2005)
*Mountain Lights, Alice’s Restaurant, Gold Lake Ventures, Ward CO. (2004-2006)
*Mi Gran Tour, El Taller Gallery, Mexico City. (2000)
Collective Exhibition, Escuela Activa de Fotografia, Mexico City. (1996)
PUBLICATIONS
Aventura Vertical, Num.17, Sep. 2000, Editorial Aventura Vertical, Mexico City
Generacion, Num.6, Year VIII, March-April, 1996, Editorial “Ediciones Era”, Mexico City
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Sacred Lands Initiative / Herbal Himalayan Center, Namche Bazaar, Solu Khumbu, Nepal 2002: Director of design and construction of a high altitude medicinal garden for rare and endangered medicinal plants of the Himalaya
Hawaiian Traditional “Taro” Cultivation Project, Oahu, June 2001- Aug 2001, Cultivation and harvesting of Taro –a Hawaiian plant
University of Yeovil, England: Environmental project. Cleaning Day of the Wilderness, 1998
University of Bern, Switzerland: Graduate student assistant for a field lab on a soil erosion research project, 1998
Socorro Alpino de Mexico (Alpine rescue team) Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) 1991-1993
WORK EXPERIENCE
Production Assistant, Video Production for IBM through OVO Films, February 2008; Denver, CO
Digital Media Communications, Video Editor, Enrolled since 2008, Denver, CO
Life Touch Photography, Photographer for the Sports Section, enrolled since August 2007; Denver, CO
Production Assistant, Video Production for IBM through OVO Films, August 2007; Denver, CO
Camera Operator, Denver, Colorado, Performance event “Farouche”, Denver Art Museum, produced by Frances Charteris, February 2007
Norlin Library, Digital Initiatives, Digital Projects Assistant, University Libraries, University of Colorado at Boulder, May 2006 - August 2007
Gold Lake Ventures, Head waiter/ manager assistant at fine dining Alice’s Restaurant, in Gold Lake Mountain Resort, Ward, Colorado, 2003- 2007
Adventure Expediciones, Mountain guide (Mexico and Nepal), and experiential teamwork leader / ropes course instructor, Mexico City, June 2000- Oct 2001
Il Vagamondo, Sales representative at a Mountaineering and Ski gear shop “Il Vagamondo”, Bellinzona, Ticino Switzerland, September 1998- Feb 1999
VISOR (Photo-library), Operations Manager and Sales representative, Mexico City, April 1997- May 1998
Pumas al Everest, Official photographer for the first Mexican Expedition to Mt. Everest on a preparatory expedition to Cordillera Blanca, Peru (he expedition to Everest did not take place); Peru-Mexico, July- August 1996
Biblioteca Internacional de Fotografia (International Library of Photography), Archives assistance/Photojournalist, Mexico City, April 1996- April 1997
Freelance Photographer, Mexico, Switzerland, USA, 1996-2008
[ Espanol, English, e Italiano]
PERSONAL INTERESTS
I am a passionate mountaineer and a trail runner. Currently a product tester for trail-running shoes for NIKE. I have traveled and climbed around the most important mountain ranges (Andes, Alps, Himalayas, Rockies, and Mexican volcanoes.) I have participated in many trail-running races, and have placed among the top five or top ten in many of them. I have also run close to twenty marathons and ultra marathons up to a 100 Mile race, where I placed 3rd.
I am a social and environmental activist, and I am also very attracted to Tibetan Buddhism and the cultures that practice it, such as Tibetans and Sherpa people from Nepal.
About Me
I was born and raised in Mexico City in a middle class society, right on the edge between the somewhat wealthy neighborhoods and the not so privileged ones; thus I had friends from both ends. I studied photography in the best private school of photography in Mexico at the time (Escuela Activa de Fotografia) At a young age I decided that I did not want to stay all my life in the city; however, life was not easy, and my dream did not consolidate until I was 25, when a cousin of mine sold me a cheap ticket to go to Europe. Once in "The Old Continent" I ripped my return ticket and found a way to survive. I had to learn a new language and meet people. I did have some contacts of european friends or their relatives, and many names come to my mind when I want to appreciate my guardian angels at that time. From Europe I was able to travel to Asia a few times. Nepal is still my favorite place of all, and part of my life and heart remains in Ticino, the beautiful Italian part of Switzerland!
Energy (and matter) cannot be created or destroyed, although it may be rearranged. (A. Lavoisier)
The French Eighteenth century chemist , Antoine Lavoisier was right when he stated the law of Conservation of Matter/Energy, and although he did not intend to use it in other sense but purely to physics, it also makes sense when we apply it to the relationship between economics and the environment. We just need to look around and realize that some people have accumulated so much matter around themselves that have left billions with almost nothing.
Part of my work is dedicated to create awareness of this subject matter, for it seems that many millions of people have yet to realize that their absurd way of consumption is leaving others with less and less all time.
The only way to achieve peace and true freedom
In a world full of fear and hatred, nothing is more important than to remain conscious that loving one-another is the only way to achieve peace and true freedom in this planet, and to save it from an imminent destruction. By loving one-another I mean loving not only our fellow humans, but also the animals, the plants, and the environment in which we live. We must respect the earth and all of its elements. War generates more war, and terrorism cannot be stopped with terrorism.