Xavier Comas studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Barcelona University, graduating in 1995. He has also taught in Master programs of visual communication in Bilbao and Barcelona. Xavier developed his career as designer, photographer and illustrator focusing on book cover art for years founding Opalworks studio in 2000. His work has appeared on many covers published internationally.
Xavier embarked on an adventurous solo journey to the Asia-Pacific in 2002 which it was the catalyst of his passion for travel and cultural immersion. His interest lies in visual storytelling using an intimate, spontaneous photographic approach that ranges from photojournalistic to candid
PROJECTS
PASAJERO is a Spanish word with double meaning: it means passenger but also fleeting or ephemeral. This word explains the experience of a Spanish photographer in Tokyo: as passenger riding trains randomly, but also as beholder of the impermanence of daily life inspired by chance encounters with Japanese commuters.
DERELICT Derelict is a visual exploration into the subject of abandonment within the context of Thailand's muslim majority deep south. I spent three months living with an ethnic Malay muslim family in a former palace at the invitation by Daiyoha, the local imam's helper and shaman-healer.
JIUTAMAI is an ancient form of classical Japanese dance with obscure origins. Performed in a soft, feminine way, it has a unique characteristic style of expressing internal emotion through a series of delicate, symbolic motions.
TOKYO UP, DOWN comprises a series of black&white photographic triptychs of images taken, inside and outside of elevators in Tokyo. From random high speed day trips in skyscrapers of Nishi-Shinjuku business district to the seedy rides in the late-night buildings of Kabukicho’s red light district. Both sides coexist in a relationship of interdependence.
NOE finds herself a white river of flesh piercing the darkness struggling to free herself from the cold wet embrace of the confused nightmares webbed by her own hair
