Resembling

My "tourist" photographs in Majorca bring formal and conceptual shades, in which portrait and landscape borrow from each other. Majorca, in Spain, is one of the most significant Mediterranean islands for mass tourism coming from Northern Europe. The beach of Magaluf and adjacencies, for example, west of the island's capital, is dominated by the English. The Ballermann region, east of the capital, is a German stronghold. Despite being authentically paradisiacal, these places end up resembling resorts where Nordic Europeans go south to spend their industrial money on sun and sea, but also on addictions and excesses. Everything ends up showing the continent's geopolitical and economic shadows that, if not properly resolved, insist on coming back to haunt us. After all, who "owns Europe"? These are aspects of an often turbulent dispute that hinder a truly shared union, besides revealing North/South relations as a "microcosm" of the world.