The World’s First Photobook Was Blue by Albarrán Cabrera goes beyond presenting a body of work, becoming instead an inquiry into the very process of making images. Structured without a fixed beginning or end, the book unfolds as a continuous reflection on photography itself.

Its title references early photographic history and figures such as Anna Atkins, while its spiral binding evokes Brassaï, positioning the book as a dialogue with the medium’s past. More than a homage, it becomes a meditation on photography as something deceptively simple yet profoundly complex.

For the artists, photography is not the final object but a means of access: a way of approaching reality and its underlying structure. Through the act of photographing, they seek to understand not only what is seen, but how it is organised, connected and made meaningful. In this sense, photography becomes a philosophical tool — a way of exploring the universe as an ordered system in which each fragment gains meaning through its relation to the whole.