Fuerteventura, 2025
Stripped of its biodiversity and ecological complexity, Earth resembles an alien landscape, eerly similar to the dust-colored terrains captured by orbiters and interplanetary rovers on other planets. Life on Mars is a photographic exploration of this haunting parallel: a visual reflection on Earth not as we know it, but as it once was—and as it could become again.
Shot in Fuerteventura, a volcanic island where wind-sculpted deserts and ancient geological scars mirror a planet in transformation, the series draws a line between two distant points in time: the Earth at the dawn of life, shaped by eruptions and meteoric impacts, and the Earth at the end of life, after an environmental collapse has erased nearly all signs of vitality.
Through a combination of macro textures—sand, rocks, oxidized surfaces—and the remains of abandoned human structures slowly being reclaimed by the elements, the project suggests a suspended moment between extinction and persistence. Life still flickers at the edges: microscopic organisms, decaying walls, architectural traces that speak of a species now reduced to memory.
Life on Mars blurs the boundaries between natural history and speculative future, origin and aftermath. It is an invitation to reflect on the fragility of life, the impermanence of human presence, and the eerie beauty of a world that might one day outlive us—silent, empty, and strangely familiar.
