Scoop
A Prado Fantasy
Alberto García-Alix

"It was my turn to repaint a new image of some of the masterpieces of the Prado Museum through photography. As I have been using the technique of double or multiple exposures on analogue film for years, I considered it a fitting formula to build my imagery." In his descriptive memoire written for Electra about this work, the renowned photographer Alberto García-Alix, a Spanish National Photography Award winner, tells us about his relationship with the Prado, which began as a child when he was taken there by his mother, and talks about the method he used to create photographs based on the Museum’s artworks. Some of these previously unseen photographs are presented in the ‘Scoop’ section of this issue. They show how images can give continuity to other images in a way that veils them as much as it reveals them, in a journey to a world which is recognisable one moment and unrecognisable the next.