@natgeo Photo by @gabrielegalimbertiphoto | I often ask people about what brings them happiness, and then I try to capture their story in a portrait. This is Andres, in BogotĂ , Colombia, who says that life offered him two surprises as a ten-year-old. He recalls being outside with classmates when someone handed out drawing materials, and "a few hours later, in a very loud voice, a gentleman announced over the microphone that I had won the competition with a landscape scene I drew. When I heard my name being read out in front of all those people and I saw how my parents were smiling at me, I felt something that I can only describe as happiness." A few months later, his parents called him into the living room. The tone of their voices led him to believe something was about to happen. When he got there, he found a gleaming silver bicycle. Later, in college, he went on to study graphic design but was gradually drawn back to art. "Now Iâm a painter, and I get around on what used to be my fatherâs bicycle," Andres says. "After my father became ill, he had to give up the bike, which for him had symbolized freedom." Andres dusted it off and gave it a fresh coat of paint. "I donât know whether what happened to me when I was 10 was just a coincidence or whether it was one of those signs that sometimes appear during your lifetime, but now I paint and cycle every day, and these two things together give me the energy I need to create. This is why, when I feel stuck, I get the bike out and start pedaling." (en BogotĂĄ, Colombia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaXsT4spDZr/?utm_medium=tumblr