Esquire Magazine "he adopts the creed of the photographer Hockney and his Picassian commitment to demonstrating that representational pictures (whether paintings or photographs) are as unrealistic and abstract as Guernica. Picasso, Hockney, and Ventosa show their cards while performing their magic tricks. They reveal in their own works the mechanisms of perspective and representation, corral the concept of the meta-narrative, of truth that gives a global meaning to the world, of a one-to-one panorama of what is real.”

Collecting Fine Art Photography “In the project The Collective Snapshot, Spanish photographer Pep Ventosa has compressed hundreds of pictures, postcards, and his own shots of world-famous metropolitan landmarks into unique compositions. These architectural icons, transformed here through sandwich projection and negative collage, recall futurist art and the related technique of photodynamism. They are a unique attestation to our collective memory.”

 

Born in 1957 in Vilafranca del Penedès (Barcelona), Spain, Ventosa currently lives near San Francisco, California.