Pepe Cañabate (Palma, 1952) is a photographer and visual artist. His work moves along the border between the documentary and the conceptual, exploring the tension between what is visible and what remains hidden, between the banal and the transcendent.
Rooted in analog photography and darkroom practice, he has developed a gaze attuned to the ephemeral: traces of light, discarded objects, everyday landscapes, or seemingly trivial scenes that, under his lens, reveal both critical depth and poetic resonance. Series such as Trastus, Wrong, or Yellow unfold as visual essays in which the insignificant acquires unexpected aesthetic and conceptual value, while projects like ITS and Level Luxury push his practice further into experimental territory, questioning photographic materiality, process, and the cultural codes of visibility, value, and display.
His practice combines technical rigor with experimentation, navigating between film and digital, between the precision of fine art printing and the uncertainty of the photographic gesture. Each project becomes an inquiry into the act of seeing, into memory, and into the limits of representation.
Rooted in analog photography and darkroom practice, he has developed a gaze attuned to the ephemeral: traces of light, discarded objects, everyday landscapes, or seemingly trivial scenes that, under his lens, reveal both critical depth and poetic resonance. Series such as Trastus, Wrong, or Yellow unfold as visual essays in which the insignificant acquires unexpected aesthetic and conceptual value, while projects like ITS and Level Luxury push his practice further into experimental territory, questioning photographic materiality, process, and the cultural codes of visibility, value, and display.
His practice combines technical rigor with experimentation, navigating between film and digital, between the precision of fine art printing and the uncertainty of the photographic gesture. Each project becomes an inquiry into the act of seeing, into memory, and into the limits of representation.