There’s a beauty to Emilia Bergmark-Jiménez images that almost hurts. It’s a feeling that comes from witnessing real people, animals, landscapes and everyday situations in all their perfectly imperfect ways. Emilia shoots analog only, for a reason. She believes there’s something that happens when you use film, something with the colors, the moments, the capture that digital simply can’t compete with. She’s a forerunner for a direction of photographers that work to prove that our actual diverse world is a billion times more beautiful and interesting than the heavily retouched, staged model aesthetic seen in glossy magazines. She’s worked incredibly hard and consistently to bring her ideas and human perspective into the commercial realm and is now one of the most sought-after photographers in her field. It’s easy to recognize a Bergmark-Jiménez image. You don’t just see it with your eyes, you feel it in your gut.