During the 1960s and 1970s, the desert around Tabernas in Almeria, Spain, was used as a backdrop for numerous films, including Sergio Leone’s early spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood. The old sets have been preserved in the dry climate, some left largely untouched and others fixed up and repainted as tourist destinations. They were constructed not to faithfully document their subject, but to represent an ideal of what the American West was perceived to be.

These five images are part of a photo montage series, superimposing urban graffiti onto Washington DC monuments. On display at Artomatic 2009.

The Carabanchel prison in Madrid is one of the most infamous architectural landmarks from Spain’s decades of dictatorship. For more on these images see the recent blog entry

These prints were exhibited together at Artomatic 2008. For more information see the blog entry