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And Photography as a Learning Process

What names or references from the world of photography have interested you? Which ones have you incorporated into your work from other disciplines?

There are many disciplines and within them many authors that influence us and make us reflect on what to investigate and in what direction. As we explained before, we need a stage of reasoning and learning before starting to photograph. This stage is not usually visual. What we are interested in understanding is more related to philosophical issues, mainly natural philosophy and philosophy of science and nature. This is the discipline that guides our work. Of course it is also very interesting to understand how other authors with a similar approach to ours have come up with interesting visual or intellectual work. These authors are an inspiration not only for what they have managed to do, but how they have done it and why. The final work is equally as enriching as the process that has led to it.

The photography of Luigi Guirri, the painting of Giorgio Morandi or Lee Ufan, the work of physicists like Richard Feynman or Carlo Rovelli, the mathematical work of geniuses like Bernhard Riemann, the cinema of Stanley Kubrick or Cristopher Nolan, the literary work of James Joyce, Joseph Conrad or Juan Rulfo, the Japanese graphic design of the 60s and 70s... it is a list that never ends because you can find ideas that can serve as inspiration in any discipline.

Have you discovered something in the photographs that reality had not previously revealed to you?

There are details that appear that we were not aware of at the time of taking the photograph. Was it the subconscious that became aware of those details? We will never know for sure. What is interesting is that the final photograph, through new details or through its visual characteristics, generates that mystery that we were explaining, that gives the viewer the sensation of observing something that borders between the real and the unreal.