For my ongoing project, I have photographed ruins scattered across the Spanish
hinterland. These sites lie off the tourist trails, in the provinces of Zamora,
Huesca, Zaragoza, Valladolid, Malaga, and Almeria.
In the isolation of Spain’s rural areas, you find an astonishing variety of ruins.
They tell of conquests, lost territories, abandoned settlements, places of
sacrifice; they are remnants of industrial progress, of rise and decline, bearing
witness to diverse cultures—the Romans, Moors, Christians, and pre-Christian peoples.
Nature has slowly taken hold of them, covering them with plants, moss, and soil,
so that their human character gradually fades away.
The ruins stand on fields, farmland, hidden in forests.
Some blend so harmoniously into the surroundings that they almost go unnoticed; at other times,
they rise like strange artifacts from a bygone era, full of quiet grandeur and a mysterious,
haunting beauty.

A selection of my photo project has been published in El Pais Semanal, Fotoensayo.