NEW ZEALAND. 2013. The furthest land from my hometown is located somewhere in New Zealand. It is Spain’s antipodes and therefore people walk upside down. Everybody knows that.
When I started the longest possible journey to get there I was not prepared for such an overwhelming landscape and I found the camera a very limited tool to convey the magnificence and the enigmatic value of what I was seeing.
I decided to add a mirror to my equipment with the intention of including in the frame, pieces of the landscape that would get lost otherwise. The result is a series on parallel sceneries where the viewer is forced to spend more time in understanding a landscape that looks somehow familiar and strange at the same time.
I also decided to add an extra mirror in the framed print, turning the print into a dark window that you can only discover flushing the print and revealing the landscape that is hidden behind your reflection.
Landscape photography has always been to me one of the worst uses of photography ever, as it always reduces the experience rather than enhancing it. The series Antipodes aims to enrich the approach by adding layers of reality to it and better record the specific moment as photography is supposed to do.