Night Tales contains photographs that I have been taking over the years, places or landscapes that caught my attention. In this book, forests coexist with increasingly rare houses or towers in a city that swallows its past. The night and the full moon as a late motif, the photograph as a background digitally transformed into a new, more scenographic, almost pictorial image, layered and transparencies. Losing oneself is that forest. Getting lost, unknown, is the forest at the time when the lights are dimming and the eye no longer perceives forms but cut-out silhouettes, trees turned into ghosts. Flutter and collide with demons, with the fears of childhood behind the fog. Get lost in the woods and feel the anguish of Sunday afternoons in your chest. To contemplate again in memory the threatening Moon framed in the nursery window, an opaque and incomprehensible crystal ball.

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About
Xavi Millán began in 1980 as a photographer at the Primer Plano Gallery in Barcelona. He later developed professionally as a decorator and graphic designer for film and advertising. In recent years, he has once again actively participated in the panorama of contemporary photography, in which his work stands out for its originality and sensitivity. He establishes bridges between the real and the dreamed, in a delicate work of glazes and textures. Like old photos that appear by chance in a drawer, they reveal a dreamlike past in dance with the present reality: a journey to the subconscious of the collective imagination.