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, WalkingTula, Wrong, or Fragments of an Ephemeral Trace unfold as visual essays where the insignificant gains unexpected aesthetic and conceptual value.
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.
Cañabate has exhibited in leading institutions and art spaces, and his work is included in public and private collections. Beyond labels, he conceives photography as an open language that questions reality through the everyday, shedding light on what is often overlooked.
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, WalkingTula, Wrong, or Fragments of an Ephemeral Trace unfold as visual essays where the insignificant gains unexpected aesthetic and conceptual value.
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.
Cañabate has exhibited in leading institutions and art spaces, and his work is included in public and private collections. Beyond labels, he conceives photography as an open language that questions reality through the everyday, shedding light on what is often overlooked.