THE WAITING GAME
BY WALL DONE, 19/01/2012
We've met Txema two months ago at Spéos during the Open Portfolio Night, part of Lens Culture FotoFest in Paris. A young gentleman with short beard, wearing beige jacket seemed to be quite satisfied with small crowd of reviewers and observers gathering around the table where he was carefully rearranging prints from his The Waiting Game project.
For over four years, disguised as a road-worker with yellow reflective vest, yellow tripod and blue helmet he was photographing girls working as prostitutes along the Mediterranean highway from Catalunya to Andalucia. The fact that he was using a large format Cambo made them believe that it's an instrument used by surveyors to transfer, measure, or set horizontal levels, making it possible to blend in and take pictures unnoticed.
All images © Txema Salvans
