Reality or watercolors of an artist?
While in the outer Hebrides, I was battered by strong gales, rain, sleet
and hail. However, the feelings I experienced in such a place had
nothing to do with the violent forces of nature. Instead, I felt calm,
connected to a certain latent tranquility in the landscape.
I was alone amidst endless white sand beaches, the ocean, the
islands, the distant mountains and impressive stretches of machair
where marram grass became a natural carpet brushed by the winds. I
climbed the sand dunes and saw a whole universe in movement:
Clouds, sea, vegetation... I felt the openness of the endless beaches
and the sheer size of the never-ending sky which became a theater for
drifting light and weather.
I decided to create a photograph which would focus on the
connotations offered by the landscape, the significations beyond the
subject matter, the place and the moment. I was eager to photograph
calm and tranquility and that connection between land, ocean and sky.
This series of photographs, "watercolors", was the result.
Rafael Rojas was born in Spain 35 years ago. After a career spanning 10 years as an engineer and researcher/lecturer at the university he made a dramatic change by becoming a full time fine art photographer of the natural environment, his true passion and vocation. Today, he travels the wildest regions of our planet with a tripod on his shoulder, always in search of those fleeting moments when personal vision, light and land combine to create sheer magic and inspire the soul.
Awards Master Hasselblad 2014
