Valuable negatives are never lost, and I always felt those very early photographs were somehow the foundation of my work. Looking at them 30 years later was interesting; they were straight BW photographs taken with a SWC Hasselblad camera, a standard of that period. In some frames, I even remember using a soft yellow filter to enhance the sky a llitle bit, a detail that makes me think how very serious about the work I was already. They also look tentative and naive; it was my very first encounter with important architecture and It was the moment in which I realized architecture was an interesting subject. At (almost) 22, I had just finished my photography studies and my main concern was to be professional, to deliver what the client required. My school had a technical approach rather than an artistic one, so I knew very little about photography as a language. My only reference was Renger-Patzsch an the New Objectivity that I had found in a book, German photography from the 30s whit its soft tones and distanced approach. Of course, without internet, references were much harder to find for a young photographer. The plague that are extreme wide angle lenses along with the spectacular and, quite often, banal images they produce, had not yet arrived. Neither had social media and its endless carrousel. All of those circumstances had influence in the result of the series and in the way I think about photography in general and architectural photography in particular.
Then, 31 years later, there I was again. My idea was to photograph the historic building in use before the health assistance is moved to the new facilities. This time I will be using color and an 8X10 plate camera which produces very rich photographs, full of detail, and with deep sense of space. I had no plan other than showing up whit the camera until I ran out of film.