For over 10 years I take the pictures in the backstage of the Josep Abril’s fashion show in Barcelona. His invaluable confidence allows me to work freely in the moments before the fashion parade: just before turning on the lights of the fashion catwalk, as usual, the Xumo Nunjio’s music sounds, signaling the start of the fashion show.

Never have too much light in the area that the organization gives each designer. Space is limited and usually always have enough people: the usual equipment of Josep Abril, models, girls who dress models, some media, friends … But seeing the pictures no one would say that things are like that.

The result is always the fruit of the same process: see how all these things claim attention, attitudes, dresses, faces, textures, fabrics, colors, spaces, objects… lights and shadows.

At time to edit them, I let the photographs are instead asked to be ordered overlap step until they form a sequence of images that is the attempt to capture, synthesize the spirit of each collection. That's it.

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