A writer and photographer, he is passionate about Oriental and African culture, having devoted most of his journalistic and photographic work to them. He lived in Egypt for five years, where he worked at Radio Cairo International. He studied everyday life in the desert, describing it in The Oases of Egypt. He was editor-in-chief and art director of Ajoblanco magazine between 1987 and 1993. In 1994, he participated in the UNESCO Heritage 2001 project and photographed the Medina in Marrakech, a work shown at the United Nations headquarters in New York in September 1994 and at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, in May 1996. In 1996 he made a photographic study of the architecture of the Moroccan Atlas: Fortalezas de barro en el sur de Marruecos.
In 1998, he published another work: Mil i una veus, a book of conversations with sixteen artists and intellectuals from both sides of the Mediterranean, about Arab societies faced with the challenge of modernity. He has also published Viatge al país de les ànimes: un apropament al món de l’animisme africà, in which he documents initiation rites and phenomena related to possession.
In 2006, Els àrabs del mar was published, based on his research into the sailors from the coasts of Arabia who used to travel to the ports of the Indian Ocean in sailing boats driven by the monsoons, following routes that had hardly varied since Sinbad’s time.
He is currently engaged in a project on the island of Socotra, which will probably be published in spring 2009.
LiberPress Camins Award 2008
He won the award for his tireless search for paths to greater understanding, friendship and peace between peoples; for his study of cultures and customs, carried out with the greatest sensitivity, which shows us another way to travel and to understand other people, revealing a beautiful part of the path that is life.