This project is the result of voyages made between 2013 and 2015, to that part of the world where West and East at their best meet: the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. Separated by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, there stand Spain and Morocco, representatives of two different civilisations – but countries that shared the same portions of history and culture for many centuries.

These photographs, either as single images or as diptychs (one image from Spain and one from Morocco), represent a visual dialogue between the two civilisations, imbued with traditional symbolism and/or narratives, also attempt to capture the real feelings, sounds and smells of these places, and show this part of the world it its (extra)ordinariness. While some of the images stand for the primary traditions and identities of the places they are showing, such as the row of shoes taken off at the entrance of a Muslim place of worship in Meknes, or the row of shoes to be observed walking under the curtain hanging from a religious float during the Andalusian Semana Santa; the metaphor of the continuation of life shown in the carpet fringe in Berber carpet-weaving traditions or the lit candles symbolising spiritual light in the Christian Heaven, other images reveal the adoption of cultural traits from the 'other', such as the persistence of the Moorish architectural framework of the Mosque-Catherdral of Córdoba, or the painting of a reclining bare-breasted lady in the lobby of the Continental Hotel in Tangier. At the same time, some photographs may also suggest a variety of ambiguous interpretations, such as the dog with a missing ear, standing in readiness on one side of a cactus 'fence', whereas on the other side is Granada's most recognisable panorama, the last Moorish stronghold in Europe.

Despite the obvious cultural, religious and other differences conveyed by these images, they may eventually come to seem as if they could all be from one place – a world that still shares many similar feelings, sounds and smells. In such an astonishing commingling of the past and the present, the West and the East, Crossing is not only a record of the destinations it represents, or a series of possible historical issues that may be disclosed; it is also about a new form of coexistence.