MONTSE ZAMORANO. 10 Fundamental Photographers. On site. Architecture

I didn't have any more contact with her until last June when we casually met in Pamplona, ​​during the 3rd 'Arquitectura y Sociedad' Conference, 'Arquitectura Necesaria". About to attend Vicente Verdú and Álvaro Siza's lectures, I met Montse Zamorano at breakfast. She had been commissioned the conference's photo report so we didn't have much time to speak but it was a great start to the day, which ended with the Álvaro Siza's great speech.

Montse Zamorano studied architecture. She is a photographer and like most of her generation colleagues, she complements her photography work with architecture video production. "The motivations and intentions hidden in my first photographs are the same that guide me today: sharing and being able to make others part of my experiences and trips. During my years at university, this need and ability to explain what surrounds me was focused on architecture. After slowly learning thought observation, researching and studying great architecture photographers, I absorbed and assimilated the conventions of this established visual language, at the same time as I developed my own criteria and way of understanding photography."

Her understanding and approach to photography are clearly influenced by her architecture studies (studies in all photographers are essential). She attempts to create a narration, a sequential process. As Álvaro Siza said when she showed him the images of a report she made for him, a complete discourse to represent architecture work, "architecture photography doesn't limit to photographing the final stage of the building for publishing and spreading the complete work, but it is also a work tool for the architect that is used to explain his ideas and projects in all stages: from the development of the project through models, during the construction stage and finally as a complete building."

Like all the selected photographers, technically impeccable, her youth turns into an explicit recognition and even more conscious acceptation of the new technologies and ways of representing the images using the new possibilities that technology offers, "video, 3Ds, virtual tours, accessibility to new technologies or the importance of Internet, enrich and democratize the way that architecture is explained, spread and showed to society. In that way, I consider that our challenge is to achieve a more global view of actual community and keep being "the translators" of architect's ideas with media and contemporary tools."

With Montse Zamorano we finish this serie of brillant photographers that we will continue in the future. I would like to leave in the reader's memory the picture of the bridges under construction in Shanghai, a process in which the best of future is always yet to come.

Text.- José Juan Barba Dr. Arquitecto.