Large Format Photographer in Spain
Manuel Pinar is a large format photographer based in Spain. He works slowly in the field and composes carefully on the ground glass.
His projects look at how people leave traces on land: military sites, rivers, housing on the urban edge, quarries and other worked landscapes.
Although rooted in Spain, moving between the Basque Country and Andalucía, the work extends to China, Japan, Germany and the United States, linked by the same way of looking, not by a single place.
Working with 4x5 film gives full control over perspective, detail and tonal range. Each negative is exposed in the field and later professionally scanned, producing images with a distinctive visual language connected to the documentary tradition of Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld and Ansel Adams.
Every project below was produced with this analogue large format process. The index gathers the complete body of work in one place.
Large Format Photography / Spain
Large Format Photography Projects
- Just Water: water, scarcity and territory
- S'Enclusa: landscape and memory in Menorca
- Andalucía: documentary landscape in the south of Spain
- Origen: origins and the worked land
- Quarries: extraction and the altered landscape
- Series Genets: coastal observation
- Closed Island: isolation and edge
- Lonely Bush: solitude in open terrain
- Walking Around: wandering and chance encounters
- Taiyuan River: river and industry in China
- Yosekiritsu: stone and structure in Japan
Field Notes
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