Photographer Humberto Ybarra is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘Liminal Landscapes’. To see Humberto ’s body of work, click on any photograph.

My photographs have always been very minimalist, with a clear focus on the landscape, seeking out very clean, uncluttered farmlands with the occasional building that can serve as a compositional element. But I’ve taken a further step towards the liminal. Why liminal? Because I understand it as being between the real and the imaginary. Landscapes that dissolve into themselves, into emptiness, into solitude or into nothingness.

Humberto Ybarra, 67 years old, from Seville living in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), began with photography at the end of the 90s, from 2010 he focused on this hobby, turning it into his passion, he has made portraits, still life, photographs conceptual and above all landscapes until in 2018 he found his own line of almost minimalist landscapes where farmlands predominate with the colors typical of the area and some solitary element that helps him for the composition, impregnating his photos above all with solitude, peace and a certain mystery. His fondness for painting is evident in his photographs, there is a certain influence of painters in them, they say that he has a very pictorial look. He has had various exhibitions in galleries in Seville, El Puerto de Santa María, Barcelona and Madrid. More info

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