I have been familiar with Helmut Newton's work for many years, ever since I began obsessively researching fashion photography. He was one of the first names that emerged and, above all, one of the first that truly disoriented me. There was something in his images that was unlike anything else: a radical elegance, an evident sexual tension, a way of looking at women that never sought to be comfortable. Newton turned fashion into theater, into confrontation, into a symbol of power. His work continues to be uncomfortable for some, and perhaps precisely for that reason it remains so vibrant. The Helmut Newton Foundation itself describes him as a bold, provocative, and decisive creator in the history of contemporary imagery.

In A Coruña, all of this was very well supported. The exhibition also brought back memories of my visit to Berlin thirteen years earlier, to the Helmut Newton Foundation, where the photographer's universe was displayed with an almost intimate density. I especially remember the feeling of entering not just a body of work, but an atmosphere, almost a way of life. At the MOP, there wasn't that meticulous recreation of the personal, but there were entire walls, posters, images, and visual arrangements that took me directly back to that first Berlin impact.

The venue itself also impressed me again. The foundation's center, built in old silos and a rehabilitated industrial warehouse in the port of A Coruña, has something both powerful and serene about it. This rugged architecture, open to the sea, makes photography enter with an almost physical presence. And on this second visit, I even noticed improvements in areas like the cafeteria, small touches that reinforce the idea that behind everything there is a very clear vision and a team that understands that the experience is also designed.