Photographer Nick Meek’s latest personal project is a series of gritty portraits made in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter. Here’s what Nick had to say about the collection:

I spent two days with my camera, some simple lighting and an assistant patiently waiting for interesting people to pass by and asking if they would mind me making a portrait of them.

The gothic quarter is interesting to me as it attracts a certain type of free thinking person that somehow wears their personality on the outside. Not afraid to be different and outward going, nearly everyone that I asked was interested in the project… proud and happy for me to photograph them and their look.

Taking inspiration from the greats like Avedon and Watson I choose to photograph these people always on a white back- ground.

The intensity of the sun and the heat on their skin seems to add a visceral quality to the images and these exquisitely details prints should be shown at life size so our viewer is confronted face to face and drawn into their world.

You can see more of Nick Meek's work here