The photographs by Jordi Esteva (Barcelona, 1951) are photos of this time, but from another place. They question the supremacy of Western culture and shift the axis to other parts of the planet that for us belong to worlds of legend, but for the artist they are places where he has lived, and that is how he has photographed them.
Choosing the contemplation of that slow and ancient world, that was about to disappear, was the hunch that enabled the growth of a dense, deep and singular work, that is unequalled, without a tribe, in the panorama of Spanish photography. Jordi Esteva's work is free because it only obeys principles as mandates of fate, far from the concept of...
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