This is an image taken at a flea market very close to Barcelona. As always, I'm accompanied by my LIGHT COLLECTION DEVICE, so it was impossible for it not to go off practically at will. We don't know if our subject found what he was looking for, but he certainly kept trying through the flea market's winding alleys. I hope I've captured our subject's candor on the one hand, and on the other, the almost hypnotic sensation of walking among used furniture, each of which could surely tell us its own story.
José María Ruiz is a photographer based in El Prat de Llobregat, Barcelona. Trained in Organizational and Work Psychology and a photographer by vocation, his practice inhabits the boundary between analysis and intuitive observation. His practice emerged after an accident that transformed both his life and his way of seeing: photography became a language and a way of inhabiting time. His work incorporates narrative layers, sequences that breathe, and projects conceived as small visual territories. His images reveal attentiveness and a desire to name light as matter.