Here is where I unpack the small decisions that shape a photograph: what I noticed, what I ignored, and why I pressed the shutter at that exact second. It’s a journal of black-and-white street work—stories, composition notes, light, timing, and the occasional Leica and Ricoh confession. No grand theories, just the practical (and slightly obsessive) craft of paying attention.
The Crack in Ordinary Life
Not danger. Danger is usually honest. What makes me nervous is the small theater of ordinary life. The half-second before a stranger notices the camera. The elevator silence. The bright shop window where everyone looks arranged by a mediocre god. The clean surfaces people build around themselves so nobody has to admit they are lost,…
Sancti Spiritus: Blurred Devotion (frames by Ana Amado)
There are photobooks that arrive perfumed with prestige and die on the table after ten minutes. Sancti Spiritus is not one of them. Ana Amado’s book, published by La Fábrica in 2026, gathers 60 images across 128 pages and is accompanied by an unpublished text by Lara Moreno. Its subject is the cloistered Dominican community…
Pedalling to the Blur
I made this in Ciutadella because the street was almost too well mannered. Clean walls, hard light, the usual old-town theatre pretending to be timeless. Very nice. Very dignified. Very close to becoming dead on arrival. Then the cyclist came through and saved the thing. What mattered was not getting him sharp. Sharpness would have…
Gravity on a Lunch Break
There are scenes that ask for admiration, and others that ask for suspicion. This one asked for both. A street performer had turned himself into a monument to bad decisions and raw balance, hanging over a dirt bike as if gravity had briefly resigned from public service. To the right, a passerby looked back with…
Archivo Nómada 82–86: a book that does not ask permission
I liked Archivo Nómada 82–86 for a reason that is not particularly refined. It is alive. That may sound like one of those phrases people use when they do not want to say anything precise, but here it is exact. There are books of photographs that are correct, serious, well produced, and dead as a…
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