I was born in Spain and at the age of 22 I moved to London. I have been living here for quite some time and I feel that this country has had a great influence in my life and informed my work.

My work explores the functional architecture of the industrial era in a documentary mode using photography as my base methodology. I focus on functional architecture that has been stripped bare of human activity revealing the essence and ongoing life of the buildings and their internal artifacts. I am interested in the relationship of structures to the history they embody whilst observing their aesthetic presence. I am also observing the relationship with the environment through a vital element that allowed industrialism to take place; water.

The nature of my work is informed by the desire to document this architecture using a methodical approach that is influenced by the photographic New Objectivity movement (1920s), one of its main proponents being Renger-Patzsch whose work was characterised by a detached, almost scientific objectivity and precise attention to detail. On a similar line I find my work being influenced by Étienne-Jules Marey (1890s), and more recently B&H Becher (1960-2000) and H. Sugimoto (2004).

I wish to communicate the meaning of the photographed referents to the viewer and to trigger memory by offering a clear and precise pictorial record.

I use digital technology to create my images; I photograph my subjects using long exposures to help capture a good range of tonality, which is then enhanced in post-production. I am investigating the use of photo intaglio as an output method because it brings the image closer to the nature of the initial referent. I am also using time-lapse photography in an attempt to subvert the fleeting nature of time. By suspending time in a photograph I allow the pensive nature of the medium to come through.

With this work I wish to reveal a view of my chosen subject from the inside out. The objects and their inevitable relation to history and environment are presented as a timeless documentation of industrialism by the given attributes of the process of photography, attributes that permeate the work even when the chosen output is not a straight photographic print.

“Searching for the object of timeless ability to embody the external laws of existence in the artistic sphere” (G.F. Hartlaub, 1923)

This blog will be a record of the evolution of my practice and research.

Valve, Photo intaglioValve, Photo intaglio, 2010