At just 18 years old he launched himself into an unknown world. 12 years later, he has managed to surpass the symbolic mark of 100 thousand subscribers in YouTube and make his passion his way of life. This is the story of Alvaro Pereza young man from Albox of only 30 years old who “He never got tired of fighting” and who today runs one of the pioneering photography and film academies in the sector.
Álvaro is known on social networks like YouTube by the name of Feline Academythe name of the academy that he himself would create eight years ago. “In 2016, while studying in Alicante, I set up an online photography school. At that time there were no online photography academies, We were pioneers“, he explains to LA VOZ. A training in photography and action cameras aimed at photography enthusiasts, a training of “photography for non-photographers”.
The project to build an online photography school worked. Soon, Alvaro already had 100,000 students enrolled in its courses and traininga very symbolic figure that he has just surpassed on his YouTube channel. “On YouTube I started making video blogs and telling my adventures. At that time they didn’t succeed. For me YouTube has been a test scenario, I used it to test the themes that worked to subsequently develop my training courses,” he explains.
In fact, exclusively for LA VOZ, Álvaro has explained that they will arrive new themes to your YouTube channel, new themes related to the motos and other sectors. Also, after surpassing the 100,000 mark, Álvaro is clear: “My new goal is one million subscribers.”
“A failure who never tired of fighting”
Despite the success that Alvaro has been reaping in recent years, this has not always been the case. He himself describes his journey as “The story of a failure who never tired of fighting”“I have never been a good student, I considered myself a failure. However, with a lot of effort and little by little I achieved my goal, to live off the world of cinema,” says the Albox native.
The Almería native’s academy is slowly growing, incorporating more students and more topics and courses for training: “I started completely alone, but last year I incorporated a person.” A business, hand in hand with his YouTube channel, and of course, the help from your team integrated by the also Albox native José Miguel, known as Maby.
The success of the Almería native has not only translated into an academy and a YouTube channel, but has also gone beyond publishing world. “I set up my own publishing house to self-publish my book and do it with greater freedom,” he says. His book, ‘The Art of Photographing Memories’, tries to give basic notions of photography to teach amateurs the importance of immortalize the memories and the people who one day will no longer be there. Currently, the book can still be purchased at Amazon.
Today, Alvaro He still lives in his town, Albox, Although for work reasons he continues to move constantly around the world. “I am still in Albox for the quality of life, tranquility and my lifelong neighbors. Here I am in a quiet environment, in Madrid it is not unusual for people to ask me for photos and here I find a little more of that anonymity,” he concludes. In short, a true entrepreneur who has created around him the life you’ve always wanted to live with the help of their hobbies, their friends and their family.
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