The work by Joan Pla (Barcelona, 1941-2023) is the result of a late vocation. Although he began learning photography in his youth, at the age of sixteen, he did not concentrate on it fully until his fifties. Since then, he has devoted himself to capturing with his camera the poetics of the world around him.
Pla lets himself get seduced by the energy and inevitable attraction of beauty; he seeks a subtle and sensitive gaze by means of order and reason. Occasionally, his photographs fragment and decontextualize reality and reduce it to forms, volumes and textures. He has often been carried along by the sinuous dance of dunes, the unattainable attraction of horizons,...
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