"There is an essential poverty in the face; the proof of this is that one tries to mask this poverty by putting on poses" (Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Infinity). "No one pays heed to the apparently abstruse fact that other people are also living souls" (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet). I usually photograph people in the street; passersby, I come across when I'm walking in different cities around the world. Photography allows me to see an underlying dimension that I could hardly perceive with the naked eye. It's a hybrid process that begins with digital capture and ends with the completion of the blueprint, whose monochromatic tones and loss of detail contribute to emphasizing the most essential elements in images. This way, without imposture or context, the faces of passersby are revealed to me in an unequivocally transcendent manner. The images displayed are 30x37 cm toned cyanotypes on 40x50 watercolour paper made from digital internegatives. "Passersby" is a work in progress I started in 2019.

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About

In the late 90s, I studied sculpture at the Massana School of Art and Design in Barcelona. I showed my work in several individual and collective exhibitions. After a long period of inactivity, I resumed artistic activity through photography. I am interested in photography as an organic object and in handmade photographic techniques that allow me to experiment in this field and to have full control of the whole process, from start to finish. My photographs are taken in public spaces, sometimes including the urban context and other times avoiding it to give maximum prominence to people. "Passersby" is the first work I publish. It has been awarded in the Portfolio Review of the Revela'T Festival 2021 and has been finalist in several awards, such as Sony World Photography Awards 2022, Lens Culture Black and White Photography Awards 2021, IPA Awards 2022 and Fotonostrum Portrait Awards, among others.