By Humberto Segura
Studio
I'm Humberto Segura. I was born in Chile, where I worked for nearly ten years as a lawyer. In 2017 I left that life behind and moved to Barcelona to study photography at Escuela Grisart. Moving from law to photography isn't about giving up the act of arguing. It's about changing the medium. Before, I built narratives with words. Now I build them with images.
DOMUM is the studio I founded in Catalonia in 2020. The name comes from Latin: house. It connects my former training with the object of my current work: the places where people live. I've been photographing spaces and shooting video for five years. The first commission came almost by accident, through a couple of friends starting a short-term rental project who wanted careful images for their first property. I haven't stopped since.
I work in the tradition of photographers like Mike Kelley and Salva López: the idea that a space is understood by reading the place before the inventory. My eye looks for atmosphere, light, character — not documentation of surfaces. Every project is a tailored commission, not a standard session.
I live between worlds. I'm a foreigner in Spain, with an international family. I speak my clients' language every day because it's my daily reality, not a commercial strategy. That makes the conversation easier with anyone arriving from abroad to invest in, operate or inhabit a place here.
