“tourist one million is an article about the island Tabarca, tourism and perseverance”Move on Photographer from Alicante Carlos Aguilera (Los Montesinos, 1992), during Two months He travelled Everyday stop at the island’s pier to see who came and went -hence perseverance- and make it a photography project Pepe, comforting Tabarca’s “official” photographer for years Photoswho retired.
He describes it this way: “I met José Espinosa a few years ago. Everyone told him Photos. Its nickname is due to the fact that it has done more. 3,500 photos per day approximately 30 years: He devoted himself to photographing each and every one of the tourists who landed on the island of Tabarca from day to day. I met José a while ago, and he told me he stopped taking pictures and came back to town to live – the same as Aguilera. tourist one million part of this anecdote is to create a relay: now that José is in town, I’m going to go photograph the island”.
Aguilera started work in 2020a gathered thousand images Y Fourty some of them are collected in the presented photo book. This Thursday at 7:00 pm. In the center of Alicante’s Las Cigarreras. They also give the vision of the different island, away from stamps and common places. they don’t look inside difficult faces, sometimes just objects, and all photos have dock wall in the background. “In the beginning there were many places where you could see the sea and the sky, but in the end they all have a stage wall and the central axis to talk about the island, using only the part of the island that is not part of it,” explains the photographer.
Launched by the project artist residency program Inhabited Culture Generalitat Valenciana Consortium of Museums. Now, the photobook was able to edit it with the help of the following. Costa Blanca Provincial Tourist Boardhelping him arrange 250 copies The latest publication, which feeds from the archive and imagination of José Espinosa and combines 40 photos with 3 texts. Jose Miguel Gomez Acosta included as flyers given to tourists,” he said.
The design of the publication is the work of Valencia studio Handshake. Ruben Montesinos and Jaime Sebastian.