Anabel Montero
Anabel Montero, a telecommunications engineer and photographer trained at UCM and PIC.A, holds a master’s degree in Digital Development and Post-Production from LaBasad, is an expert in 3D modeling through training at DSIGNO and RTVE, and teaches digital development at UCM Mayores.
Her career, which began more than a decade ago, has evolved from a technical approach toward a more conceptual exploration of territory, matter, and perception. Her work explores different ways of relating to the image: from the observation of landscape and built space to the dissolution of form in light or the construction of ambiguous images that challenge the viewer’s perspective.
She has participated in national and international group exhibitions, and her work has been recognized in various competitions, including second prize in the “Travesías del Alma” International Competition (Buenos Aires, 2025) and her selection as a finalist in the VP Hotel & Art Awards (2024). In 2025, he presented the solo exhibition *El Alma en la Mirada* as part of the Fronteras Foto Fest Biennial in Argentina.
His work has been published in various solo and group photobooks, including projects with The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (Scotland). Additionally, he conducts research on the use of digital technologies in post-production and artificial intelligence applied to the reconstruction of family visual memory.
Portfolio
This series explores spaces where human presence is manifested through its remnants: isolated infrastructure, disused structures, and landscapes transformed by economic activity.
Far from a documentary approach, the images occupy an ambiguous territory, where the functional loses its purpose and takes on an almost sculptural dimension. Warehouses, structures, and buildings appear decontextualized, suspended between use and abandonment.
The absence of human figures reinforces the sense of distance and transforms these places into silent settings, marked by wear and the accumulation of layers.
Rather than depicting a specific location, the series offers a perspective on the territory as a space in constant transformation, where the natural and the built coexist in an unstable equilibrium.
A series of botanical studies in which form dissolves into light. The flowers appear isolated, suspended in an almost empty space, poised between presence and disappearance. The light not only illuminates but also erases, softening the contours and reducing the subject to a faint trace.
Color fades, losing its intensity, and the image shifts from the descriptive to the evocative. Each element seems to detach from its context, as if floating in a moment where time has stood still, without clear points of reference.
The series does not seek to document, but rather to suggest: a fragile moment, on the verge of vanishing. An unstable balance between the visible and that which is about to disappear.
A series focused on the fragility of perception. Through reflections, distortions, and superimpositions, the image is presented as an unstable space where the visible never quite comes into focus.
Shapes split, fragment, or blend into their surroundings, creating ambiguous interpretations.
Photography thus ceases to be evidence and becomes a question.
