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The city is the capital of the Punjab region which is placed north of Delhi.
It was created in the early 50´s by a team of architects headed by Le Corbusier, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry.
The idea was to build a new city in the foothills of the Himalayas that fused Modern Movement and Garden City ideals.
Most of the Government buildings and Monuments were designed by Le Corbusier in his unique style.

Monuments that have withstood the passage of time are scattered throughout the vast emptiness of the Spanish landscape.
Rocks and remnants that reveal mystical narratives, tales of conquest, the reclamation of territories and sights of industrial progress.
Taken over by nature, their human impact fades, blending seamlessly into the landscape or standing as out of place objects, possessing a strange beauty.  
Why do we preserve them?
The sites chosen for these pictures are those that are lesser-known and less ordinary, highlighting the many ruins that remain unexplored but are still preserved, despite their limited historical documentation.
And again, why weren’t they completely erased from the landscape?
What compels us to leave them standing?
Perhaps they evoke a sense of awe, fear, or respect—testaments to the endurance of the human spirit, partially swallowed by nature but still standing. Maybe these stones speak to us of the future—of space travel, aliens, and the vastness of the skies. 

Upon closer inspection, some might even remind us of a sci-fi landscape, an analog of Mars on our planet.
What do we see when we look back at the past?
How do we perceive it?
Is the weight of time upon us, or is it perhaps a tiger’s leap into the past?
Walter Benjamin suggests the possibility of viewing time as non-linear and non-sequential, allowing us to see the past as a creative force and the present as an open door to new possibilities for contemporary change.
Maybe the image of the ruin challenges us to think in terms of Benjamin’s tiger’s leap, to understand tales and stories, myths and legends, our historical past, as part of a temporal continuum—a lens through which we can interrogate our contemporary present.

Work in progress

Frontón is a handball game where single or double opponents compete by hitting a small rubber ball with their hands against a wall.
Usually, the fronton wall can be found in the main square, the natural meeting spot of the villages.
In many places, the exterior of the church mural served as a fronton wall. Priests became well known players as they had the wall nearby and
met with the villagers after the Sunday mass for a match.
But when fronton became a more commercialized sport, the men of god retreated from competing and served as referees.
What once was a space for social gatherings and enthusiastic fronton competitions has often become a purposeless wall.
For the first part of my project, I photographed the fronton walls in the province of Soria, Zaragoza, Salamanca, Zamora and Avila.
The harsh living conditions of the isolated villages in Spain led to rural depopulation as people moved to the cities for better jobs and
opportunities. The present generation is still firmly rooted in their motherland, many spend their summer break in their former villages and get together for a fronton match.
But the glorious old days have passed.
What is left in the Spanish hinterland are empty or dune populated villages where the century old walls are reminders of a vivid past and a
fading cultural identity.

Why am I fascinated by Frontón walls:
Fronton walls are telling us a story of the people who have played here over the past centuries.
The walls are marked by the many ball hits and scribblings left over the years. I can still hear and feel the emotions of the players, the show,
and the spectators who went along, who cheered enthusiastically, and were pleased or upset when their favorite players lost. As you walk
around the village, you can hardly hear any sound apart from a bird chirping or the wind blowing around the closed houses.
The walls stand there in silence and could be confused with a unique and peculiar installation of a contemporary artist.