Baseball was the root of it all. I know you are all wondering how baseball fits into the background of a documentary photographer. Well, the truth is that baseball sparked my curiosity towards photography, and it was in baseball that my first photojournalist steps were taken.

Fast forward over 14 years, and I am still passionate about the game. Yet, I am equally captivated about the possibility and the ability to carry a camera around and document life as my eyes see it.

After many baseball games, cultural, journalistic assignments in a communist-run newspaper, documentary photography adventures as an independent photographer, and political rallies, I took the step of leaving my home country and come to America. My sense as a trouble-maker made me be less than loved at home, thus leading me to abandon Cuba.

As I try to make my way in the US, I have found more than one challenge that has made me stronger and readier for anything good that may come my way. The idea of starting ReyCD PHOTOS as a business has not and will not take over my passion for baseball and teaching, or my dream to become a photojournalist for a major publication like National Geographic, Time, LIFE, Magnum Photos, or Condé Nast. Whether I get there or not, will depend less on my luck and more on what my drive, effort, professionalism and body of work can accomplish.