Siroco. Tinduf, 2001

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TECHNICAL DATA

Author: José Mª Díaz-Maroto (Madrid, 1957)
Títle: Siroco. Tinduf, 2001
Year: 2001
Tecnique: silver jelly, vintage copy
Size: 25 x 37 cm
Edition: Unique

This work by José María Díaz-Maroto from Madrid was part of the exhibition organised as part of PhotoEspaña 2014 under the title “El viaje. Sendero vital” (“The Journey. Vital Path”), where a group of authors come together who had met over thirty years before at the Royal Photographic Society of Madrid. The María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation acquired a set of photographs for this project. Each one presents their unique perspective of this group adventure with different natural, cultural and social scenes captured on the road between 1982 and 2012, making up a broad spectrum of contrasts in black and white.

As the wind blows in the African desert, the central character of the composition, perhaps running in the opposite direction, suggests a poetry of space that is also common in Díaz-Maroto’s photographs. Once again, the contrast between the foreground and landscape in the background is a symbol of the vastness of nature, with an empty and striking sky stretching across almost two thirds of the image. The rest of the image is filled with the dry soil of this vast southwestern Algerian province where the Spanish artist found another source of inspiration for his trips during these evocative “vital paths”.