#rinzi

I met up with Rinzi Ruiz on my recent trip to Los Angeles and we talked about his photographic process and why downtown LA is his favorite place to shoot. Great guy and an amazing street photographer! Check it out!

11: What do you love doing more than anything in the world?

This will sound a little weird, but I think it’s imagining. Like when you read a book and you imagine the world in with, or with a movie or a TV series, when you keep playing with the ideas in your mind. Or like when I’m alone and I start to imagines stories on my own, or musics, or places I want to meet someday, I don’t know. It’s something I get myself doing all the time and I think my life with be too boring without. But I don’t know if it makes sense at all xD

16: What is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

There lot of things, most little things, that people did for me that were very important to me and they probably didn’t even realized it :) But there was this one time when I was a child that was fantastic. I was in a shopping mall with my parents (I think I was 3 or 4) and the Lion King VHS had just been release and I asked my parents to buy it for me, but they couldn’t because they didn’t had the money (VHS used to be a little expensive in Brazil). And then this random man in his forties came, brought the VHS and just gave it to me, he said it was a gift. My parents said they would pay him for it, but he denied and then walked way. It was kind magic.

32: If time froze, what day would you want it to happen on?