We want to introduce to you all our dearest Spanish photographer Mara Alonso, for those of you who doesn’t know she was featured in our latest issue creating and letting us in into her marvelous world, we are gonna be having a lovely conversation with her so more people can meet here and feel a connection with her, like the one I have.

For those who doesn’t know you at all, how would you describe yourself along with your work?

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My work revolves around something that has been with me for as long as I can remember: dance. That’s why I’m always drawn to movement, or to finding unusual postures in the body. I used to dream of becoming a dancer, until I encountered the still image. Suddenly, I had found another way to love art — and I’ve always had a deep interest in aesthetics, in every form.

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Once we talk about a little house near the fields, don’t remember the name exactly, but it was a house of memories for you, how could you said emotions, memories are related to your work?

(Mara laughs) I love you have this memory in your mind. This house is called “cortijo” in Andalucía andit is a building into the field in Granada, where I am from.

My connection to that place is very strong because I spent my entire childhood and teenage years there with my grandparents and my cousin. It’s a space that allowed me to live close to nature, and I played endlessly in those fields. In fact, I’ve danced a lot there — and I still do. It also connects me to my aunt, who is a painter and always loved capturing the spring landscapes in oil, and to my uncle, who is a photographer. He used to go up to the rooms on the top floor, where there are tiny windows that let in the most beautiful light. He would photograph his partner there, and those images, full of delicacy and taste, have always stayed with me.

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We know your first approach to fine arts was through the dance, what things the discipline of dancing gives to your actual work?

To this day, I still can’t tell which kind of dance truly connects me to my visual work. I’ve always danced flamenco. For those who don’t know it, it’s a discipline marked by strength, character, and a kind of cold blood in its execution. My work as a photographer is much more delicate, and I don’t think it conveys all that raw intensity I’m so familiar with. But I suppose, for me, beauty lies in subtlety and the ethereal. And any form of dance carries a great deal of both. I think that’s what I’m drawn to in the visual realm. A still image captures a single moment within a succession of many movements, gestures… It’s just a fleeting instant that makes what I see so fascinating.