This collection of images where taken in 2001 as part of a commission for the Independent on Sunday Review Magazine. I was hired to photograph Gibraltar and give it and "end of the world feeling". Aside from the main purpose of my visit to Gibraltar I decided to produce a set of images which would inquire into the dual (Spanish and British) identity of Gibraltar.

I was born in Spain near Gibraltar and I visited it a few times as a boy. The landscapes were then very familiar to me but there were components which were also very alien. This memory, together with the fact that I have now lived in the UK for 14 years, gives me an understanding of the British/Spanish Gibraltar's identity. Familiar Landscape is one of the most personal projects I have done.