Costa Tropical

Pablo Castilla
Granada
1980


There is this moment of the day in Andalusia between 14h and 17h, when the heat and the light reach the highest intensity, and all the work activity temporally suspended and people return home looking for shelter, rest and a nap, in which the streets are left empty and silent. There is literally almost no one out there and a sense of timelessness or suspension takes over. The occasional few passers-by and the objects that remain on the surface of that different (indifferent) landscape, seem to appear detached, isolated, even disconnected of each other. Also, surrounded as they are by that emptiness, their presence is magnified, augmented, so new spacial and semantic relations are born between them, filled with renewed tension.

The unpredictable, the non-expected and the random take over the course of events, making the absurd, the tragic and the comic co-exist in a new reality perceived as a flow of un-scripted theatrical acts…

Thus, for this project I decided to photograph the landscape and the public space as an unpredictable theater stage; considering the elements on the surface and the inanimate objects as “props”, and the people as wandering performers unaware of their own roles.

With these series I’ve tried to produce an original and alternative imagery of an specific region, the Costa Tropical of Granada, non-related and autonomous from local history or personal biography- yet made up of the elements displayed on its surface. The resulting images seem to inhabit a new and sovereign territory situated somewhere between reality and fiction, record and invention, document and subjective perception.


Visit our online store


30y3 is an independent platform and archive devoted to spreading and supporting the work of contemporary photographers from Spain and beyond.

If you want to get in touch with us, please write at hola(at)30y3.com or follow us on facebooktwitter and instagram.We also send a newsletter to which you can subscribe.

Designing and coding this website was possible thanks to a grant of Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Web hosting is sponsored by Dinahosting.

Eng/Cas
Home
Store
Artists

Albert Gusi Alberto Feijoo Alberto Lizaralde Alberto Salván Aleix Plademunt Alejandro Marote Alfonso Almendros Ali Hanoon Ana Cuba Ana Galán Ana Nieto Ángel de la Rubia Anna Huix Antonio Guerra Antonio Xoubanova
Bego Antón Bubi Canal
Carla Andrade Carlos Albalá Carlos Chavarría Carlos Irijalba Carlos Sanva Cristina de Middel
Daniel Mayrit Daniel S. Álvarez Darío Martínez David Hornillos David Mocha Drew Nikonowicz
Eduardo Nave Elisa González Miralles Erik Von Frankenberg
Félix R. Cid Fosi Vegue Fran Herbello Francisco Reina
Gerardo Custance Gonzalo Puig
Ignacio Evangelista Ignacio Navas Ignasi López Íñigo Aragón Intimidad Romero Ixone Sádaba
Javier Izquierdo Javier Marquerie Thomas Jerónimo Álvarez Jesús Madriñán Jon Cazenave Jon Uriarte Jordi Ruiz Cirera Jorge Fuembuena Jorge Yeregui José Cendón José Guerrero Jose Ramón Ais Juan Carlos Martínez Juan de la Cruz Megías Juan Diego Valera Julián Barón
Laia Abril Linarejos Moreno
Manuel Fernández Manuel Fernández Marc Serra María Sánchez María Serrano Markel Redondo Marta Soul Mati Martí Matías Costa Miguel Ángel Tornero Miren Pastor
Nicolás Combarro Nophoto Nophoto
Olmo González Oscar Monzón
Pablo Castilla Paco Gómez Palíndromo Mészáros Patricia Bofill Paula Gortázar
Reinaldo Loureiro Ricardo Cases Rita Puig-Serra Costa Roc Herms Roger Guaus Román Yñán Rut Panusé
Salva López Salvi Danés
Tanit Plana Tatjana Schloer Toni Amengual Txema Salvans
Vari Caramés
Xabier Ribas
Yosigo
Zoé T. Vizcaíno