Photographer Angel J. Sánchez is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘Babel’. To see Angel’s body of work, click on any photograph.
Paris, France
Bilbao, Spain
Paris, France
Logroño, Spain
BABEL is a visual essay on contemporary solitude: the paradox of being permanently connected and yet increasingly isolated. Through architecture and scale, the city becomes a system – precise, monumental, indifferent – while the human figure appears as a minimal presence, almost a glitch in the structure. These images explore how we inhabit public space today: close to others, but emotionally distant; visible, but unheard. BABEL is not about describing places, but about revealing a condition – where modernity promises proximity, and delivers separation.
Laguardia, Spain
I photograph architecture as a metaphor for the mental landscape of our time. In BABEL, I search for the moment when a body meets a built environment that overwhelms it: corridors, grids, façades, and voids that frame the individual into silence. Human presence is essential, but never dominant -more a trace than a protagonist; at times, it becomes most evident through its absence. My intention is to make the viewer slow down and feel the tension between order and vulnerability, progress and emptiness. Because there is no greater loneliness than missing oneself, BABEL asks what the city – our collective invention – is turning us into.
Bilbao, Spain
Paris, France
Bilbao, Spain
Bilbao, Spain
Ángel J. Sánchez is a Spanish fine-art photographer working across architecture, landscape, portrait and sport, using each genre to reveal inner states - “landscapes of the soul” - and the emotional consequences of modern life. His images are driven by narrative: a search to capture what moves him, what stirs him, and what unsettles him, transforming fleeting experience into visual memory. His internationally recognized projects are developed as long-form series that combine conceptual rigor with a minimalist visual language. He lives and works in Bilbao, Spain.
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“how we inhabit public space today: close to others, but emotionally distant; visible, but unheard.” Wow. What a way to interpret Babel, the original tower to the heavens, ultimate symbol of man’s cooperative power, that ended in disconnection through the splitting of language. Beautiful and provocative images! I’m always drawn to these inhuman spaces, despite feeling out of place. Perhaps that is part of the paradox the artist has captured here.
Glorious photography! Yes, the works do speak to isolation. Magnificent paradox.