The photographs shown in this series were taken in 1992 and 2001. They are the result of an encounter between a world and an artist who look each other straight in the eye, without tricks, without duplicity, without making a single concession to the superficial exoticism or sentimentality that so often accompany images of “far-off” countries […] he has always set up his studio in the street: in the streets of Madrid or in those of Benares…

Eva Fernández del Campo