"The visible makes the form; the invisible gives it value."

In 1974, Koldo Chamorro began El Santo Christo Ibérico, a major monographic project to visually reflect on the different aspects of the liturgies and religious manifestations of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the presence of the Christian cross in our social landscape.
In the last years of the Franco regime, Koldo Chamorro realised that there were certain religious manifestations, popular festivals and rituals that were in danger of disappearing, because the agony of the dictatorship would presumably consign them to oblivion and because of the advance of new technologies and the globalisation that was coming. However, it's not a question of photographically preserving this supposedly dying heritage, but of carrying out a profound social analysis that shows the contradictions of a Spain marked by backwardness and obscurantism, but which is being dragged towards modernity, through a deeply personal gaze and with an unmistakable style.
El Santo Christo Ibérico is organised according to the stations of the Way of the Cross, which mark the rhythm of an ancient narrative structure. The author completed it on the occasion of the Catholic Jubilee in 2000.