Celebration is a study of the use of personal images as parts of events or commemorative rituals. I've deliberately omitted the names of the events in which they were taken so that the focus relies on the visual aspect.
I've been traveling through Spain for over the past six years to attend various festivals and collect the images. My project resulted in something in between documentary and artistic photography. All photographs were shot in the full glow of the celebrations to capture the festive spirit. However, I had to pull the participants out of the spree to my improvised street studio so that their portraits would stand out.
The images are matched with each other without having any direct relationship, they just seem to keep visual parallelism and show general mood of remote events both geographically and conceptually.
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