“In October 2014, I stopped by the roadside to photograph a sand mine for the first time. The sight was overwhelming. Only excavators nestled in the hillside and a lone tree gave any sense of the scale of the devastation. The hill’s edges were sheer, marked with the grooves of the machines that tore it apart. The mountain was shattered, resembling a bleak, lifeless moonscape —a scene both captivating and repelling. This was the inception of the Dominio project.

Dominio confronts architecture’s grand narrative by illuminating its production processes. These images strive to trigger a critical introspection about architectural production and its socio-ecological footprint, while contesting the dominant visual narrative that perpetuates its existence. This publication, then, is a mosaic of queries, contradictions, and internal conflict. It serves as my introspective critique of how my role as an architectural photographer might have inadvertently contributed to architecture’s fetishization.” -Onnis Luque