“Quo Vadis?” is about my search in life. Following a path, exploring my interior through ‘selfies avant-la-lettre’, the self-portroids (1982-1994) and exploring the outside through transiting unknown paths, the ‘Quo Vadis’ (1987-now). I am an explorer of my own life, a traveler in time and space, always looking for a new horizon, somewhere better?
When I step out of my house which lies hidden in a small valley and climb up our first hill, I come to open fields. On my morning walks I often walk around these fields, which always look different at all stages of all seasons. My latest exhibition is a homage to these fields. With fragments … More Ploughed Fields and Borrowed Words
In the summer of 2015, I received the great honour of being invited as an official photographer of the Real Maestranza de Caballería de Ronda (RMCR) and documenting the three days of bullfights at the Goyesca Fair. I had to think about it. I had no knowledge of the centuries-old bullfighting culture, I seriously doubted … More Sol y Sombra
Acinipo is placed on a limestone plateau that raises at 1000 meters above sea level. Beneath this geological formation there is an aquifer that drains into several springs. Archaeological works find out that Acinipo was first occupied in the Copper Age in the 10th-9th century BC. The Roman presence since the year 206 BC brought … More Acinipo, The Old Ronda
DIPTYCHS OF RONDA III Part of the exhibition ‘Going Solo’ is the third in the series ‘Diptychs of Ronda’ With these diptychs I am trying to create new images based on the merging of two unrelated photographs, taken at different times and for different reasons. For the diptychs I frequently use scale enlargements/reductions. The fusion … More Diptychs of Ronda ‘Rocks and stones’
‘Semana Santa’, the Easter celebration, is taken very seriously in Andalusia. Every city, town or even the smallest village has been for months preparing their robes and attributes for the daily processions starting on ‘Domingo de Ramos’, Palm Sunday and continuing daily – depending on the size of the population – until the week after … More Devotion
This exhibition is the second in the series ‘Diptychs of Ronda’ With these diptychs I create new images based on the merging of two unrelated, and at different times and for different reasons taken, photographs. The first series showed the distinct faces of Ronda; historic and natural beauty versus pragmatic buildings and street furniture. To find … More Diptychs of Ronda ‘Harmonies’
This morning, as many mornings, we went for a walk just straight from our house. My head was filled with worries, same old same old, money things. But the longer I walked the more I felt disconnected to that ‘silly thing called economy’. I fled into reality.. Another spring has come and we’re still here. No, we … More Flight into Reality
This past week I have been following a BBC crew as stills photographer. It was my first time and hopefully not the last. The crew was filming an episode in the documentary series ‘Secret lives of the artists’ , this one being about David Bomberg and the years that this British painter lived and worked in Ronda in the … More Stills
Through my photography I look at the environment in two almost opposite ways. I do not always identify with the common aesthetic, but I see it and it can attract me. However it is in the ‘rough around the edges’ where I find true passion and where I see beauty. With these diptychs I want … More Contrasts
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