Pedro Abascal

I consider myself as very a curious person with a great capacity to be surprised; that’s perhaps what makes me see the world through the viewfinder of my camera and allows me to explore everything that attracts my attention, and to a certain extent enter that which remains hidden, awaiting to be discovered. Throughout my career as a photographer, I have developed a number of series that embody my overall interest in the human condition.

“Documentos Personales” (Personal Documents) is based on direct photographs taken in the streets of my hometown; the series places man in his own environment as he goes about his daily business. It could be considered as a photo-documentary although, it is not my aim to document anything but a self-portrait. The images form a poetics of the mundane as it is precisely in the commonplace of the day-to-day where man leaves a deep and enormous trace of his existence, seeking to achieve the right balance between reality and mystery.