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TECHNICAL DATA
Author: José María Díaz-Maroto (Madrid, 1957)
Title: Nazaré. Portugal, 1993
Year: 1993
Technique: glicée with pigment inks on cotton paper.
Size: 35x 54 cm
Edition: 1/7
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.
The clean horizon of the western side of the Iberian Peninsula, dotted with just a few clouds, and the light entering from the right of the image convey the sunset on an average day in this Portuguese town bathed by the Atlantic Ocean. A lone silhouetted figure barely stays in the axis of perspective in the centre of the photograph, with the long shadow to his left heralding the arrival of dusk. Humility and emotion contained in an image rooted in neorealism and solitary scenery.