Vokabular, 2025
At its core, photography is an attempt to understand—a way to bridge the distance between the self and the unknown.
Vokabular approaches a place that is in constant motion. Lanzarote—volcanic, wind-carved, contradictory—is not a backdrop, but a counterpart that resists being fully known. The island became a space of resonance, where observation, encounter, and uncertainty overlapped.
At the center of the project is a conceptual use of language. Selected Spanish words appear alongside the photographs—not as captions, but as associative extensions of the visual material. Referencing the format of a vocabulary book, these terms disrupt linear reading and open up layers of interpretation. Vokabular is less a document of place than a reflection on the act of photographic observation itself. It investigates how image and language can shape, distort, or fragment our understanding of an unfamiliar environment.
Vokabular
21 x 30 cm
120 pages
68 b&w images
The project Vokabular was developed as part of the international Blended Intensive Programme “Mare Nostrum / Mare Tuum” and was
selected for publication in the accompanying magazine.
Additionally, the project was published online at www.maretuum.eu
Editorial Concept: Salvatore Elefante.
Editorial Design: Ricardo Báez.
Printing & Binding: Newspaper Club, UK.