An almost superhuman sense of alertness, a lightning-fast
trigger finger and the world’s luckiest timing come together in
one photographer to produce amazing coincidental images that
couldn’t be faked if you tried. Born in Barcelona and currently
based in Oslo, Pau
Buscató has a keen eye for his environment, watching and
waiting until people, animals and objects in his surroundings
come together in just the right way at just the right moment.
He his method and constantly shifting body of work
‘H-O-P-S-C-O-T-C-H,’ after the children’s game, referring to
the practice of “choosing and framing a small portion of the
everyday” to transform it into something else. Buscató says he
prefers to take an intuitive approach to photography,
specializing in ‘frozen moments’ that just happen to produce a
playful result. The former engineer and architect moved to
Norway for a job and then felt a pull in a new direction – a
transformation that gave photography a central role in his
life.
It’s no surprise that Buscató chooses big cities as his
subjects of choice, since they have “more weirdness per square
meter.” Places like London, Barcelona and New York City have so
much going on, his creative process requires the ability to
hone in on tiny scenes and tune out everything else that’s
happening. Eschewing preconceived notions of what he might find
and shoot, the photographer lets the eternal march of urban
life guide his
work.
“I feel almost as if I am another spectator,” Buscató writes
on LensCulture. “There is a necessary dissociation between
my intuition, which leads me to take a photo, and reason, which
just follows along. But regardless of whether instinct or
rationality is paramount, street photography has always
required an immense amount of time—hard work and long hours
collecting the small pieces of a puzzle in order to create a
bigger picture that is still unclear to me. Is there, actually,
a bigger picture?”
