From Photojournalism to Personal Projects
On moving from daily photojournalism at Última Hora to long-term landscape work on 4×5 colour film: what changed and what remained.
Field Notes
On moving from daily photojournalism at Última Hora to long-term landscape work on 4×5 colour film: what changed and what remained.
Documentary landscape photography in Menorca when the island pauses, territory, absence and the slow rhythm of 4×5 film.
On building a travel series through fixed framing and displacement, fair structures across Menorca, photographed on 4×5 colour film.
Water not as nature but as infrastructure: a documentary approach to territory, regulation and landscape on large format film.
Photographing the Fen River in Taiyuan as managed urban landscape, travel, territory and 4×5 documentary work in China.
Building ratios, urban density and the visual order of Tokyo: a travel photography project on 4×5 colour film.
Peripheral housing before the city arrives: documentary landscape photography in Seseña, Spain, on 4×5 colour slide film.
Quarries as constructed landscape: documentary photography of extraction, geometry and absence on large format film.
How portraits encountered on location integrate into landscape: documentary photography in Andalucía on 4×5 colour film.
The Menorcan horse as presence in landscape, typology, cultural memory and travel photography on 4×5 film in Menorca.
Documentary landscape work built on isolation and double reading: personal photographic experience without illustrating the news.
Personal method for choosing locations: light, spatial balance and territorial conditions across Andalucía, Menorca, Seseña and abroad.
Portfolio editing for documentary series, sequencing Just Water, Enclusa and Quarries as long-form visual narratives on large format film.
Landscape photography as memory of use and absence, connecting Enclusa, Closed Island and Origen through long-term observation.
Photo editing for large format work, scanning colour slide film, resolution for 120×100 cm prints and restraint in post-production.
Personal experience of travelling with a 4×5 camera, slow observation across China, Japan, Germany, the United States and Spain.
On documentary work as sustained observation, staying with a territory until the frame holds its condition, rather than illustrating a theme.
On long-term observation at S'Enclusa, Menorca, why repeated visits to the same place matter more than a single decisive moment.
On returning to Menorca, the slow rhythm of 4×5 film, and why an abandoned military site became a long-term study of landscape, memory, and natural reclamation.