Yurian Quintanas Nobel

Yurian Quintanas Nobel photography and books

Yurian Quintanas Nobel is a photographer born in Amsterdam in 1983 and based in Catalonia. His practice operates within contemporary photography, but moves decisively away from straight description: images begin with ordinary surroundings and familiar objects, then shift into territory shaped by dream logic, displacement, and controlled strangeness. The tension between reality and imagination is not incidental to the work — it is the method.

That approach is clearest in projects such as Dream Moons and Silent Rooms, where domestic environments become sites of transformation rather than shelter. Rooms, tools, objects, and bodies are reorganised into sequences that sit between observation and construction. For those seeking Yurian Quintanas Nobel photobooks, his work is relevant not only as photography but as a form of book-based world-building — sequences that require the physical format to hold together.

Dream logic, everyday objects, and constructed photographic worlds

• Contemporary photographer working between reality and fiction
• Born in Amsterdam in 1983; based in Catalonia
• Uses everyday materials and ordinary environments as image-building tools
• Practice spans photobooks, artist publications, and constructed photography
• Projects include Dream Moons, Silent Rooms, and The Ignorant Gardener
  

Quintanas Nobel's work sits within a wider field of artist publications and photobooks in which the book form is treated as a structural element, not a container. The Photography collection at Lokator100 places his titles alongside other work in this space, including titles from Void Photo, a publisher with a comparable interest in experimental and constructed image-making.