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Geologists are saying that we are already living in a new era on planet Earth called Anthropocenus. They say it was generated by the industrialized nations and their elites after turning Industry into the new engine that defines the whole planet´s dynamics.

Despite all the attention that the environment is getting lately, the truth is that an economic model based on the uncontrolled and abusive exploitation of natural resources and excessive consumption of manufactured goods is still being taken as an example for a prosperous future in most underdeveloped countries, despite its obvious failure.

After decades of historical exploitation by the official metropolis, Africa is now hopelessly embracing the remains of other´s mistakes becoming a target market for low quality and highly toxic products with hardly any planning made to manage the “after party”.

With this state of things we decided to approach all environmental issues as a whole, projecting what the challenges would be for the territories that are more exposed and less prepared for the consequences of this excess. We decided to visualize the effects of macro-economics into African micro-routines.

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Antipodes, 2013


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The furthest land from my hometown is located somewhere in New Zealand. It is Spain’s antipodes and therefore, people walk upside down. Everybody knows that.

When I started the longest possible journey to get there, I was not prepared for such an overwhelming landscape and found the camera a very limited tool to convey the magnificence and the enigmatic value of what I was seeing.

I decided to add a mirror to my equipment with the intention of including in the frame pieces of the landscape that would otherwise get lost. The result is a series on parallel sceneries where the viewer is forced to spend more time understanding a landscape that looks somehow familiar and strange at the same time.

I also decided to add an extra mirror in the framed print, turning the print into a dark window that can only be discovered by flushing the print and revealing the landscape hidden behind your reflection.

Landscape photography has always been to me one of the worst uses of photography ever, as it always reduces the experience rather than enhancing it. The series Antipodes aims to enrich the approach by adding layers of reality to it and better record the specific moment as photography is supposed to do.

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