Architecture & Design Shortlist

This project focuses on the figuration of a singular architectural movement - brutalism. The movement can be traced back to 1950s Great Britain, a context where the demand for social housing was increasing whilst building materials were scarcely available. The resulting architectural projects placed functionality at the forefront, and gave less importance to aesthetic considerations, leading to minimal and geometric constructions designed with their practical uses in mind.

Photographing brutalist structures in Spain with a pinhole camera is based on the notion that they might be viewed differently, through long exposures which produce a less defined image with blurred lines. The resulting photographs show brutalist constructions overlaid with light, creating a dreamlike effect.

Bilbao 1973 Degree in Evolutionary Psychology from the Complutense University, he is Professor of documentary photography at the PICA School of PHE in Spain.

It develops humanitarian essays where the protagonists are integrated in societies that limit and aggregate all reason and right. He has won the most important international awards, such as, UNICEF Prize, SonyWorldPhotography, POYI, Fotoevidence, EugeneSmith Grant, GettyImages Grant, LucasDolega Grant and WorldPressPhoto, complete reports in El Mundo, El Pais, L ́Expresso, GEO, And SieteDias.