Refineries of Spain examines the territorial presence of large-scale industrial infrastructures across the Spanish landscape.

Photographed across the Iberian Peninsula, the series follows a journey throughmonumental industrial enclaves often situated beyond the country’s familiar urban and tourist geographies. Refineries become points from which to encounter another Spain: peripheral territories shaped by industry, infrastructure and their relationship with thesurrounding landscape.

Processing units, pipelines and storage tanks appear alongside mountains, agriculturalland, railways, vegetation and residential areas. Observed entirely from outside theirboundaries, these vast complexes operate simultaneously as machines, architectures and landscapes.

Rather than treating the refinery as an isolated industrial object, the photographsexamine how these systems become embedded within everyday territory, shaping itsscale, horizons and forms of occupation.

© Manuel Álvarez Diestro (MAD)