The look at the Outdoors is as old as the cities but, unfortunately, it usually imposes an idealized and simplified vision over a more complex reality.

DOC 1: French-Basque Border
Using lightweight equipment, we have traveled through the Basque-French border trying to approach the inhabitants of this territory and the places where they live and work with the greatest respect for their gestures, their words, and the way they fill their intimate space. We have been looking for our characters in this kind of frontier land which we call the outskirts, a place in which all ornaments of our mass media landscape are torn apart and where the most archaic ways of living coexist with the remains of the industrial world.
We do believe that in the outskirts the act of registering gets in contact with the decadence of things and their odd glow; the image carries with it a different present which passes much closer to silence; and maybe carries, as well, a fleeting glimpse of truth.

This project is not intended to offer a closed vision nor a definition of the Outdoors. On the contrary, we consider it a work in progress and we are making plans to decide which will be our next destination.

Ferran Mendoza/ Alvaro Sau 2009

DOC 2: Egypt