El Observatorio is a space for creation and training specialising in auteur photography and visual narrative: A space for creation because it develops and promotes photographic projects that seek to address contemporary issues from multiple disciplines. A training space because, for more than ten years, we have been offering a complete, very close and individualised training that delves into different aspects of auteur photography. And a space for creation and training because, above all, El Observatorio is a point of convergence between disciplines and authors; students and teachers; professionals and organisations; individuals and collectives that seek to learn, reflect, share and create ‘from’, ‘from’ and ‘with’ images. El Observatorio is articulated around a table: square and without hierarchies; always open to new formats, people and ideas.

Las Figas” is a collective of photographers born in 2023 as a result of the course of Documentary Photography of Author of the school El Observatorio with the aim of creating a space for discussion, meeting and creation around the image. “A tower, a mine, a saint, and no dinosaur” is a project in development that focuses on collective dynamics and processes as a means to investigate the subliminality of the creative act. Through an exploratory game of an unknown place, Las Figas share, through the photographic act, the same space and time that allows them to investigate the subliminality of the creative act.