Roland Knipfer – El Paradiso

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“El Paradiso is a small urban settlement on the Spanish coastline of Costa Blanca. Friends of mine live there, and whenever I visit them, the little town becomes my base for photo expeditions in the surrounding area. As it is situated between the coast and the Bernia mountains, the region offers a lot of diversity within a condensed area, both in terms of landscape as well as culturally.

Everything is within arms-reach – from mountain scenery to sea-coast, barren scrublands to bird-net covered orchards, from sleepy small towns shaped by the uneventful lives of their inhabitants all the way to Benidorm, one of the first major Mediterranean tourist resorts.

In fact, I shot this entire series within a radius of perhaps only 15 kilometres from El Paradiso. In my photography, I am more drawn to universal themes, and in this case also to incidental, everyday occurrences, rather than breathtaking scenes.”

Photographer Kiên Hoàng Lê (Middle) in the Suna no Shiro bar

Roland Knipfer

Born 1962 in Nürnberg, Germany. After studying Photographic Design, Knipfer trained as a media designer with a special focus on photography. Since 2004, he has worked as a freelance photographer, predominantly in the field of advertising.

www.rolandknipfer.de

Roland Knipfer – El Paradiso

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