Just Water

Just Water Water is one of the most essential and contested resources of our time. This project is a photographic exploration of the landscapes, infrastructures and communities shaped by its presence and increasingly by its absence. Through images made with a 4x5 technical field camera on colour slide film, the project examines territories where water defines daily life: irrigation channels built during the Franco era, reservoirs and engineered routes that transformed rural land, the culture of bottled water as a commercial response to scarcity, and the people who continue to inhabit these environments. These photographs observe how political decisions, industry and climate leave visible marks on the land. They also consider the fragile relationship between human progress and natural limits. In some places water appears controlled, redirected and packaged; in others, it is missing, awaited or remembered. Just Water is both a document and a reflection on power, memory and survival asking who owns water, who depends on it, and what remains when it disappears. Full project: www.manuelpinar.com