Manuel Moraleda Pérez

Historia

Spanish photographer in black and white (analogic).

For years I’ve believed that photography is a form of art that brings back a forgotten taste of our own selves. Taking pictures is like reconstructing a puzzle of infinite pieces, most of them placed face down. Only as I’m capturing each one of those images, the truth that hides inside them comes up to the surface, unique, obdurate, rescuing from reality those instants that throw me towards a specific time and space from which it is impossible to escape. I never intended to run away from my past, much less ignore it. This desire is what pushes me to take pictures, to chase with my eyes all those miniature worlds that make up this puzzle named Life or Story, which we all are part of.

Accompanied by my Canon EOS5, I’m following sunsets, walking through mirrors, travelling to towns and villages that I never left, waiting in countless streets and corners, crouched down, with the camera in my hands, dying to catch those black and white pictures that will shake my soul.