With the dog days of summer on our doorsteps. we thought we’d share three days of posts on dogs. Enjoy the last days of summer…and the dogs! I first learned of Txema Salvans’s work from an Instagram post recommending his book The Waiting Game III. Since the photographs included dogs, I was curious to see
As you see, my dog project, unlike most dog projects does not have an intention to show how much fun they are. My project is a much more critical look at the kind of relationship we have with them, but mostly I use the figure of the dog to understand the kind of relationship we have with our natural environment
In Perfect Day, Txema Salvans photographs Spain’s holiday-makers in unexpected corners of the postindustrial landscape. Sunbathers congregate in car p…
In Perfect Day, Txema Salvans photographs Spain’s holiday-makers in unexpected corners of the postindustrial landscape. Sunbathers congregate in car parks, swimming pools are nestled between encroaching buildings, and cranes and cooling towers loom over beaches. In these surreal, banal and humorous scenes, Salvans reveals how the pursuit of leisure persists in spite of the ominous pressures of the built environment, expressing a deeply human determination to adapt, and find repose, against the odds.
