José Enrique Montes Hernandez is a photographer, writer, and curator born in El Salvador in 1983, raised in Canada, and shaped by years of living between cultures, languages, and countries. His work moves fluidly between photography, writing, and visual art — always rooted in observation, memory, and the quiet contradictions of everyday life. He has lived and worked in El Salvador, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Taiwan, and Guatemala, and that constant movement between places is the backbone of everything he creates. As a photographer, his practice is documentary at heart — street life, human presence, the texture of cities and the people who inhabit them. His first book, Streets of Taiwan (2023), is a photographic portrait of everyday life in Taiwan, assembled over seven years of living and working there, where he also directed an art gallery and curated public art projects. Narratives Soudaines — Petites histoires d'un simple passant (2026) is his first literary work — a trilingual collection of poems, short prose, drawings, and photographs, written in French, English, and Spanish. Raw, fragmented, and deeply personal, it traces migration, family, identity, love, and loss across the many places he has called home.