Based in Cantabria and Galicia, Spain, Vicente Ansola has been a professional photographer since 1980. Vicente is self-taught and spent twenty years working in his studio shooting portraits with his 500CM, before moving outside and starting a new path in his photographic journey. “For the last two years I’ve been documenting the struggle of small and beautiful Spanish villages that have survived neglect. Photography has always been in my life, and now I feel like a street photographer, visiting these towns and portraying the ancient customs that characterize them.” “I try and tell the histories of people in their homes and their villages,” he adds, “and I aim to create feelings in the viewer that relate to the abandonment of rural life in Spain today. People, places, towns, and old scents that are being lost forever, mixed in with portraits of the last people who still hold these values.”