Joan Pujol
La Lluna d’abans, la Lluna de sempre
Fábrica Cal Garbat
Recreating the exact conditions that Maurice Loewy and Pierre-Henri Puiseux used over a hundred years ago at the Paris Observatory (the same magnifications, the same lunar phase, the same illumination of the craters) is only possible two or three times a year.
Over a period of three years, the author has photographed the same regions of the Moon under these conditions.
When compared with the images by Loewy and Puiseux, the current photographs show no discernible change in the lunar surface.
Set against the speed and resolution of today’s technologies, the project proposes a different pace: an escape from contemporary urgency to observe the extreme slowness of change in relation to human time—an escape into a time distinct from our own.
Joan Pujol (Vilassar de Dalt) is an astronomer, science communicator and photographer. His interest in the universe began in childhood, after witnessing the first human landing on the Moon.
Throughout his career, he has developed his own technical solutions for photographing faint celestial objects and has devoted twenty-five years to teaching and popularising astronomy.
He currently combines research into galaxies and planetary nebulae with the poetic documentation of lunar landscapes.
