Photographer Alba Santos presents a documentary exhibition at Casa de Las Tejerinas reflecting her vision of Peru.

The photographic exhibition ‘Peru Inside. Portraits of the everyday’ will remain on display from November 20 to December 13, with free access.

The Estepona City Council informs that Room 2 of the Casa de Las Tejerinas, located in the Plaza de las Flores, will host from November 20 to December 17 the documentary photography exhibition ‘Peru inside. Portraits of everyday life’, by local photographer Alba Santos.

The exhibition consists of about twenty photographs, and is born from a trip of the photographer to Peru, in collaboration with a humanitarian aid organization. “They invited me to document the work they were doing with local families and communities. During that time, I traveled through different areas of the country, living with the people portrayed and collecting with my camera small fragments of their lives,” says Alba Santos.

The exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Friday, from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm, and Saturdays from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm and from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm, with free access.

Alba Santos Gavira was born and raised in Estepona. “Since I was a child, art has been my way of being in the world. I spent hours drawing, painting, creating costumes or building small scenarios. I enjoyed inventing and giving shape to what I imagined. That creative impulse led me to study Fine Arts at the University of Malaga, where I discovered my great passion: photography.

I fell in love with its ability to tell stories, as if each image were a scene from a movie. Although I work with different genres, documentary photography has a special character for me: it shows the real, the everyday, what happens in front of our eyes. It is an invitation to observe other ways of living, of feeling, of inhabiting the world. In addition to my personal projects, I work professionally in commercial photography, mainly for restaurants, real estate and architecture. I have also worked as a graphic designer and I am deeply interested in the design of spaces. That combination of experiences has marked my way of looking, more aware now of what surrounds me, of aesthetics and how it influences the way we live. Years after finishing my degree, I took a master’s degree specializing in fashion and advertising photography, further expanding my visual language”.