Salt Lake Rituals

In the south of Spain, certain salt lakes have long attracted people who come not only for the landscape, but for the body. Visitors cover themselves in mineral-rich mud, walk slowly along the shore, and enter the water as part of a quiet, almost ordinary ritual of care.

This photographic series observes these moments with a simple, direct gaze. The scenes are everyday and unposed: bodies against open horizons, gestures that repeat, light that flattens and reveals. What appears at first as a landscape gradually becomes a human space a place where people seek relief, curiosity, or simply the pleasure of being there.

The work explores the relationship between the body and the environment, between color, distance, and presence. In these salt lakes, the extraordinary is subtle. It exists in small actions, in textures of skin and mud, and in the way people inhabit the landscape, if only for a moment.

Photographs by Ludwig Favre, 2016.