Juan Baraja's photography is, in essence, a subjective and intimate document that records emotional states and is interested in light as an aesthetic problem, by witnessing the slight daily modifications and transformations that are linked through clarity and calm.

His work is based on the desire to understand the product of the sublimation of everyday life. His photography finds beauty in variety, smallness, gradual variation of light, and the delicacy and clarity of color.

In his portraits, in landscapes and in architectural photography, Baraja fulfills the purpose of 'illuminating', of giving some truth and knowledge through the image, of sharing something "sincere, naked and resounding", as he himself states. His compositions become metaphysical and expectant spaces, calm and mysterious, photographs in which nostalgia replaces history, as curator Santiago Rueda states.

Baraja presents himself as a photography artisan who returns to analog cameras, with all the benefits and complications they entail. His patient gaze and the prolongation of the time dedicated to each shot go against the accelerated pace of the image in contemporary times, which shows a conscious attention to the particularities of architecture and human existence that are not evident to any eye.

“He found the perfect format, neither too long, nor too static, the one necessary to dedicate enough time to each shot, to organize and fix the thought within the frame without intervening or repairing the image. That darkness isolated me from any stimulus around me other than the scene itself, and made all the senses concentrate on one. I suddenly became a motionless photographer, and not so unlucky (I never was one).”