There was a turning point in my life, in my way of life. It was in Iceland…the immensity of it all.

Where are you living at the moment? Where did you grow up?

In wintertime, for the moment, I live in Madrid, but for the last three years, in summertime I live in the south of Greenland. I grew up in two places, I was born in Germany and when I was six years old I came to Spain, and I stayed here ever since.

I’ve kept up with your work on Flickr for a few years now, but it looks like you’ve been on the site since 2007. How has your work evolved over the last eight years?

I remember my first camera twenty five years ago. Since then, my photos have changed as much as I have… I can see this on Flickr, 2007, I was a different person then. I think the deep essence of a person doesn’t change, maybe just their way of expressing it. The last eight years are full of experiences, beautiful, intense and painful too, maybe this is in my photography.

When did you begin shooting the kinds of landscapes your known for these days?

There was a turning point in my life, in my way of life. It was in Iceland…the immensity of it all.

What keeps you with Flickr? Do you get a sense of community from it?

Now, I’m preparing my website on Cargo. But at the moment I have only Flickr. I think is important to me because due to Flickr we can discover a different kind of photographer and photography, we can release our photos and are in contact with people of the same interests. I think it is the first way to mature in photography.

You are in a few of Ana Cabaleiro’s photos. Are you two pretty close? Do you ever work together?

Ana and I have been friends from six years of age. She was, and is a mainstay of my life. All that I am, that I hear, that I read, that I see, my way of life…is full of her. Both of us together, we make mistakes. I can’t say any more. Maybe one day we will work together.

Most of your photos are taken with your trusty 35mm Leica. Do you ever see yourself going digital?

I really love film, I love the grain, texture and noise. Digital is very cold to me. Recently I bought a Fujifilm X-E1 and sometimes I take her to the Northern Lights…

Recently you’ve posted a lot of photos from Greenland and Iceland. What brought you there? What did you take from those places?

I go in summertime to Greenland and Iceland for work as a trekking and kayak guide. I shoot the immensity, the hostility, the ice in silence.

Some of the sites are far remote. How do you find access?

Maybe in some of these places there has never been human presence, I access them with my kayak or by boat. Sometimes I’m lucky, and I go alone, sometimes I go with my groups. Either way I’m very lucky, I can see other worlds within this world. I’m very lucky to experience this.

What’s been the most inspiring or impressive (visual) thing you’ve experienced, whether you’ve captured it on film or not?

If think about it, I believe it is the ice, all that it makes me feel, it’s really impressive. But I had an very profound experience with a waterfall in Iceland, that changed me inside. It was a spiritual experience, I captured it with my camera. You can find it here.

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? 

Very far away, living in a cold place, in a nomad camper van like a typical American camper (silver and elongated) maybe in Alaska, Canada, Antarctica or Kamchatka.

Interview by Matt Lief Anderson for AHB. Images by Carmen Marchena