ÁLVARO TRABANCO

Álvaro Trabanco was born in Gijón/Xixón, Spain, on 1991. He’s a photographer and communication designer with a Master’s Degree in Communication Design and New Media, from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon; He graduated in Graphic Design from the Higher School of Arts of the Principality of Asturias. He’s been deeply involved in photography since the beginning of his studies and currently uses all analog processes, including working in the darkroom to produce his silver gelatin prints. He’s based in İstanbul since 2019.

Photographers can only show what is present today. Trabanco is interested in suggesting the absent, in making the viewer’s imagination fly. His current photographic practice makes us reflect on the capabilities of photography to present complex, less visited territories, whose layers of history may be absent, but mark its future.