Bio

My name is Carlos Lazurtegui. Sometimes surnames of Basque origin may be too long. So, both fellow students and colleagues in the neighborhood used to call me "Lazur". Born in Bilbao, Spain, I'm just a guy wandering the streets with a camera in my hand. I'm always on the lookout in case the goddess of fortune decides to pay me a visit and give me one of those magical moments where all possible circumstances come together to represent before me something magical and unrepeatable.

In this no longer liquid society, to paraphrase Zygmunt Bauman, but gaseous in which we currently live, my family (wife and three children) and street photography have been the anchors that have allowed me to focus my always crazy head on specific projects and thus somehow weather the storm of superficiality and triviality that lashes the sea of our daily life.

Through my photographs I have always tried to overcome that layer of puerile appearance that surrounds our daily lives with the intention of getting closer to the essence of what defines us as humans. I have searched for that essence behind a simple gesture, a lost look or a sincere smile. When my attention has rested on an inanimate object, it has usually been because I thought I saw a story behind it and with it, usually, the reminder of the inexorable passage of time.