Foundations for a Photographic Documentation of Walking develops a conceptual and visual framework that intertwines the photographic medium with the evolution of contemporary cultural thought, from Enlightenment explorations to post-surrealist psychogeography. The investigation positions photography not just as a technical tool but as an epistemological mechanism capable of both fixing space and provoking a subjective reencounter with place, allowing a dual reading of the image: as an agent of spatial appropriation and as a medium of intimate traversal. Engaging with poststructuralist, postmetaphysical, and reconstructive paradigms, the work proposes a rearticulation of relational aesthetics, grounded in everyday experiences and reframed through the lens of spatial interpretation. Drawing from symbolic and historical journeys as well as theoretical frameworks on territory, the research critiques and expands upon the sociological readings of landscape by introducing the notion of private cartography—a term coined to signify a contemporary expressive method that transcends documentary rigidity. This notion is built upon two original conceptual formulations: objectionable uncertainties, which address the inherent ambiguities and tensions of spatial representation, and modes of situating oneself, which reflect on the performativity of movement and the embodied act of locating oneself within a dynamic spatial narrative. These pillars support a proposal in which photography serves both as archive and as performative gesture, situating the act of walking as a reflective and aesthetic experience. The photographic image, rather than freezing moments, becomes an invitation to inhabit space differently, aligning personal experience with critical discourse to configure a layered, poetic map of presence.
Campillo García, D. (2010). Cartografías privadas. Fundamentos para una documentación fotográfica del andar. Universidad de Granada.
