One sidewalk, a hundred faces
When we look at someone, we are also being looked at; it is never an isolated act. To see is to be seen, and within that reciprocity lies the recognition of the other. Another person’s face confronts us, compelling us to acknowledge their existence and subjectivity. This experience becomes a point of departure, a shared gesture: the encounter with a stranger’s gaze, before the same sea and under the same light.
This series emerges from a personal reflection on the camera as a device that intrudes upon intimacy and on the power dynamics inevitably at play when photographing another person. It explores how consent and agency can be negotiated, and questions what an image can — or cannot — reveal about someone. The visible edge of the negative makes explicit the subjectivity of the photographer, reminding us that every image is also a constructed reality. Created between March and July 2025 at the Espigón del Gas, these photographs portray the diversity of those who inhabit this space by the sea in Barcelona.
