I am really pleased to present Álvaro Sánchez-Montañés.

JONATHAN CHERRY: Where are you now and what is the weather like?

ALVARO SANCHEZ-MONTANES: Barcelona. It’s too hot and there’s a lot of humidity … and cloud.

JC: What started you off photographing Desert Indoors?

AM: A picture on a magazine of the buildings outside. It made me so curious about what there was on the inside.

JC: Are there any emerging photographers at the moment who inspire your practice? 

AM: Many from Spain; Ruben Acosta, Ariadna Arnes and Txema Salvans.

JC: Who is your hero?

AM: Leonard Cohen.

JC: What is next for you photographically?

AM: I’m developing a project about the Gulf of Mexico in the USA. It’s almost finished. It has nothing to do with indoor desert; nothing at all.

JC: When exhibiting work from Desert Indoors what you be you ideal size and layout and why?

AM: I normally print in two sizes: 20x30” and 30x39” … I’d really love exhibiting it recreating a room like the ones in the photographs with painted paper on the wall and sand on the floor but I couldn’t find any galleries who wanted to make it.

JC: Any exciting plans for the rest of 2010?

AM: Not now. I want to travel to Japan … but I don’t know if I will have time!

JC: Any other thoughts?

AM: I’m hungry now and thinking about lunch.