Looking at the soul

Not even travelling to places, can one get to know in depth the human beings that inhabit them.

Such is this promenade, a tour of images captured by the aim of Jesús Botaro where the individual´s simplicity, spontaneity and nature strip in a hard to see civilization.

It is the untouched view of the focus that discovers it.

"It is the soul", without words, translated to images.

The project:

This project was born in spite of the Moroccan Muslim’s great wariness to be photographed. Once the barriers were overcome with cohabitation and an intense

interaction, I managed to get close to the inner core of these people and for them to show me their life, their customs and anecdotes, and to "show me their souls".

I felt that if they gave me the best of themselves, how could I submit their reality to interpretation? The simplicity of a people that lets itself be photographed as it is, without touchups and artifices, is a naked truth with an unequivocal meaning and it shouldn´t and can´t be manipulated to submit it to the onlooker´s subjective appreciation. There are realities that don´t allow for disguises because they are as they seem: there are no unreal universes or open narratives.

The images of "Looking at the soul" are complete and categorical: they have no room for partial conclusions, but that doesn´t mean they are devoid of warmth and passion.