How consistency can build coherent stories and strong images from rubble.

Usually, when looking at an image produced with a camera, people tend to reflect about the very moment printed or displayed in front of them. In this regard, Susan Sontag stated that photographs were "neat slices of time" which do not really tell the truth, but which collectively and deceitfully build another one in our minds.


However, Daniel Eduardo Leal's work successfully challenges both in his series about derelict houses in Chile. With a kind eye towards old mud constructions, overgrown weeds and windowless walls, Daniel Eduardo Leal photographs the inexorable passage of time.

Time does not stand still in his black and white series about abandoned houses. A single image enables the viewer to wonder what life used to be like in an old room, while poignantly highlighting the obvious: nothing will stand and only dust will remain. Through each piece of rubble and rotten wood plank, a longer narrative exists.

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