

Jorge Fuembuena’s photographs do not aim to document the world, but to take up a stance in regards to it. His work goes beyond the merely descriptive and, somewhat like the landscape painters in the past with Claude glasses, sets out to build new rea
Urban palimpsests help us understand the cities we live in. These evanescent traces, from the diachronic superpositions of buildings or streets to the faded remains of a sign or writing on a party wall, tell stories about the lifestyles and concerns
In the era of post-truth, and at a time when the documentary role of photography is being put into question, the work of Thomas Demand (Munich, 1964) moves within the liminal space between reality and fiction. With recent exhibitions at the Botín Cen
More than half a century after the first space ventures, which left memorable images of the Moon and of our planet – ‘Earthrise’ from Apollo 8 or ‘Blue Marble’ from Apollo 17 still impress us today –, human space exploration takes a step further and
The Botín Centre’s current show on Thomas Demand presents his photos of realistic models that he himself makes with paper and cardboard.
The London-based Chilean artist Francisco Ibáñez has been taking photographs since he was given his first camera as a Christmas gift at the age of 14. After training to become an architect, he turned his long-held interest in photography into a caree
For mathematicians, chalkboards are more than a blank space on which to write or draw; they offer a means of communication that is inherent to the field, ideal for its explanation and creative process. While in other sciences or fields of research ch
Born in Almería in 1930 and recently deceased, Siquier was one of the key figures of Spanish avant-garde photography, and his work with the AFAL group earned international attention. In 1956 he started a documentary project on La Chanca, a poor neigh
The science teacher at the board holding a piece of chalk is a scene much seen in movies. Students take down notes as he or she fills the slate with white math symbols. In the fun variant it’s a crackpot scientist; in documentaries or biopics of the
Bernd and Hilla Becher photographed between 1959 and 1973 a large number of timber-frame houses, transformed into types by the strict German regulations, and their publication in 1977 turned the documentary series into a mythical work. For his part,
The photographs in the ‘Memento Mori’ series capture the beauty of solitude in places of lost grandeur where nature has reclaimed its space, keeping the memory of what they once were for when there is nobody left to remember...
The series ‘Beneath the Roses’ evokes the paintings of Edward Hopper, the photographs of Diane Arbus and the films of David Lynch, depicting enigmatic scenes of everyday life in the streets and houses of suburban American towns. The ‘construction’ of
Of great American photographers of the approximate first half of the twentieth century – a distinguished group that includes Alfred Stieglitz, Lewis Hine, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams,
The archaeologist Luis Monreal, now General Manager of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Geneva, has behind him a distinguished career in culture administration, but will most be remembered as a photographer. His latest book, which pays homage to Hen
This is a homage to photography and to a city which, paradoxically, plays a secondary role in a visual account. In Madrid, a human landscape lords over the urban one, actors take center stage against the backdrop of props. Madrid – with its popular a
The inevitable presence of reality in architecture and photography alike is ultimately the main reason why a parallel discussion of both disciplines is productive and necessary. Philip Ursprung’s suggestion of a realist current in contemporary archit
Peru experienced a period of economic prosperity starting around the year 2000, thanks above all to the boom in construction and the strong growth of the mining industry, which brought about a drastic transformation across the country, reaching both
The series ‘Superlative-Made in Germany’ gives a photographic and artistic perspective of the country’s economic and social situation through the images of Christoph Morlinghaus. The photographer has already captured, since starting on the project in
Iñaki Bergera (Vitoria, 1972) is a photographer, architect, researcher, and teacher. He obtained his PhD from the School of Architecture of Navarre in 2002, and later studied photography with the British Chris Killip at Harvard University. Since then
José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960), painter and photographer with a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University, has received numerous prizes throughout his career. Among them is the National Photography Award of 2010, with which the jury d
Photographer and graphic designer in the toy industry, Emmett started developing his interest in capturing the spirit of abandoned places five years ago, when during a visit to the National Gas Turbine Establishment of Hampshire he discovered that th
The publication of the 200th issue of the magazine has encouraged us to draw up a list of 200 elements - book, magazines, exhibitions, and films/photographers - which have influenced the discipline.
Kacper Kowalski studied architecture at Gdansk University of Technology, and after four years of professional activity in the field, the young Polish, born in 1977, decided to focus on his two great passions: flying and photography. Since 2006 Kowals
¡¡ The German photographer was one of the highest representatives of the artistic movement called ‘New Objectivity’ that emerged in the early 1920s in Germany. With a style of extreme simplicity and originality, his extensive trajectory begins with i
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