CONCEPT

This project is a casual work; a brainwork intended beyond the sphere of method. At no time was based on an original plan or idea, it is rather the contrary. It has evolved as it reflected the constant changes in the course of several years. First, I made the photographs; then, I invented and created the concept that finally shaped Waiting for Lunch.

I freely captured the spontaneous images that people and situations presented to me. None of the photographs is part of a script, or composes a scene. It's a work without preconcept .

Waiting for Lunch is a metaphor that alludes to the wait of occurrences in our lives. As we are waiting, our lives go by. The images depict the metaphorical wait existing in numerous human situations. The scene takes place in cities such as Berlin, Barcelona, Los Angeles or countries such as Haiti.

The word Waiting suggests the wait in each one's life, the virtual place where different behaviours and attitudes express our hopes, happiness, solitude, our resignation, sadness and many other feelings. Lunch, on the contrary, refers to life, to future, to friendship and, in the end, to the unavoidable destiny: Death.

Using the double ability of the camera to simultaneously subjective and objective images. My photos also try to transmit the antagonist idea of diversity within the global world; when I photograph different situations performed by disparate individuals, in remote cultures, I manage to unglobalize but at the same time, when evenly reflecting their same wait, I am globalizing, though relating opposite attitudes

It is at that point that the concept of Waiting for Lunch originates. These opposed poles work, interact and complement each other creating a link among images, human, fiction and reality.

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