Manolo Laguillo (born 1953 in Madrid) is a key figure in the Spain of the “new topographics”, a 1970s movement of international artists that altered traditional concepts of
landscape and
urban photography without glossing-over the reality of a territory. Analysing and documenting since 1977 the transformation of the urban space and its sprawl, he has often worked in series that emphasized the ambiguous tensions between city and countryside. Being professor of photography since 1996 at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona.
