In the ambitious “Lacrimosa” project, Sasha creates conceptual portraits by using a Nomarski Interference Microscope to take pictures of his own tears and those of others, among them his family and friends and public figures such as the cyclist Alberto Contador, the ex-minister Leire Pajín, the singer Monica Naranjo and the actress Paula Echevarría…

Ever since it was developed, photography has been closely linked to science because of its ability to create documentary visual representations of the world. With time, the descendants of that first daguerreotype surpassed humans’ perceptive abilities, and they took on a role as authentic purveyors of previously inaccessible knowledge of the nature of reality…