Where History Remains In Stone Metal & Light

Edge of Humanity Magazine

6 hours ago

Photographer Felipe Martín-Serrano Ortiz is an Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images. To see Felipe’s body of work, click on any photograph.

The series brings together historic architecture, industrial heritage, urban spaces and night landscapes. Many of the images were made in and around Almadén, a former mining town in central Spain, where stone, metal and light carry the weight of the past. The selection also includes photographs from Madrid and Sète, France. I am interested in the atmosphere of these places: what remains when the crowds have gone, and how light changes their meaning.

Felipe Martín-Serrano Ortiz is a Spanish photographer and Capture One Certified Editor based in Almadén, Spain. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, a background that informs his attentive, methodical approach to image-making.

His work is shaped by an interest in light, atmosphere and the stories held by a place. He photographs landscapes, historic architecture, urban spaces and night scenes, looking for the point where structure and emotion meet. In 2026, his work received a European Photography Award in the Architecture category.

Felipe has edited more than 5,000 images, working closely with exposure, colour and composition rather than relying on automated filters. He is also a historical novelist, and the research behind his writing has reinforced a principle that runs through his photography: whether in a long narrative or a single frame, what matters is creating an image that invites the viewer to stay.

His photographs seek not only to show a location, but to retain its atmosphere: the silence of an old mining site, a square after dark, or a building held beneath the night sky.

All images and text © Felipe Martín-Serrano Ortiz