pepe cañabate

Wrong is a visual exploration of the banal and the inappropriate turned into aesthetic matter. Found objects, discordant scenes, and everyday gestures appear out of place, stripped of their original function to challenge notions of good taste, value, and relevance. The series looks with irony and clarity at what is usually discarded or overlooked, revealing its potential as both image and cultural sign.

A project that brings together triptychs where urban and natural fragments interact in tension. Each crossing of images opens an ambiguous territory, where darkness acts as the guiding thread and the viewer completes the meaning.

My TITAN SERIES is a series that began in 2013. The digital revolution had diminished my interest in photography and I needed to re ignite my interest in the art I had learned with analogue cameras and darkroom printing. I needed to enjoy photography again. The pin hole camera presented a way to do this. A difficult system to manage, often resulting in failure, always requiring time, planning and patience before seeing the finished result. It provided a new discipline and gave me the inspiration I was looking for.

Minimal Depth brings together portraits of creatives —painters, photographers, writers, musicians, and others— captured with minimal depth of field. Extreme proximity and reduced focus concentrate the gaze on what is essential, turning the face into a territory of presence. The frontal framing, stripped of artifice, intensifies expression and reveals both vulnerability and inner strength in each subject.

“Pinhole Close” emerges as a parallel and complementary development to the series “Minimal Depth.” While Minimal Depth explores portraits with an extremely shallow depth of field, Pinhole Close introduces an even slower and more experimental gaze through the pinhole camera. The absence of a lens and the extended exposure time create faces suspended in a soft, timeless atmosphere, deepening the exploration of presence and the vulnerability of the portrait.

Becoming Studios explores the intimate dialogue between creators and the spaces where their work begins to take shape. Each diptych juxtaposes the quiet presence of the artist —black-and-white portraits distilled to gesture and gaze— with a wide, almost cartographic vision of the studio, that reveals traces, chaos, and order. The series frames the studio as a territory in constant transformation, where matter, time, and thought accumulate and where creative identity unfolds layer by layer.

“Limited” brings together works conceived as unique pieces or extremely limited editions. These images emerge outside the logic of series to affirm themselves as independent presences, each with its own rhythm and meaning. Born from a personal search that values singularity and the unrepeatable nature of the creative act, they do not seek to build a continuous narrative but to exist as autonomous objects — self-contained and poetically charged. Their rarity and exclusivity are essential to their essence, inviting intimate contemplation and a conscious approach to collecting.