Plateau (Picos de Europa), 2001

The unlimited colonization of every corner in the world has made the relationship between the natural and the artificial become closer. The result of this manipulation is the main field of study of the Dutch artist Bas Princen (Utrecht, 1975), who uses his camera as a tool to study, document and assess the built environment. Trained as a designer and as an architect, his images are full of urban and architectural references, and they put into question whether the process developed is one of construction or, on the contrary, of destruction. In his photographs, the concept of landscape is understood as an attribute of the territory that is shaped by economic, social or political factors. Hence, his images not only reflect the man-altered landscape but also the causes leading to that transformation...[+]