Cities are part of their inhabitant´s identities. They have the capacity to change the habits of their new tenants, who subconsciously adopt the rhythm of life that the metropolis imposes upon them. Each city has its own personality, its way of dealing with each day, its own way of progressing. There are tall ones, short ones, big ones, small ones, younger ones, happier ones or sad ones. There are also cities which are more or less cultured, safe, sociable or claustrophobic, interesting, peculiar or strange. All of these qualities affect the personality of those who live in its heart. I am from Madrid.
2017 has been the year where I have revived my childhood passion for photography. My work as a video-editor required an input of time that I did not have due to my studies. However, my need to hold a camera with my own two hands led me to get back into photography.
However, my workload was becoming progressively more and more crushing and was not allowing me to have time to take pictures. This jarring situation and the need I had to develop my technique led me to embark on this project: 100 days on the streets of Madrid. This project aimed to reflect what daily life is like in the city that I grew up in as well as showing what the characters that inhabit it are like. Every day my life is a routine and I always take the same route to university, however the people that I come across are different each day. Now I try and reflect those small details that nobody really pays attention to but that unconsciously are part of its identity.
