Photographed by Ibai Acevedo

It is a pleasure to work again with The New York Times.

We already have the impressive results from ‘Juan Tamariz, the Man Who Made Spain the Magic Capital of the World’ our production which was photographed by Ibai Acevedo.

Thanks once again!

Going out to dinner with Juan Tamariz in Madrid is a little like accompanying a cartoon character on a journey to the real world. As I walked with the 80-year-old magician on side streets off the city center’s main drag, the Calle Gran Vía, heads turned left and right. Tamariz has been a professional magician for 52 years, and in that time, he has managed the singular feat of becoming both a household name in his home country and a living legend in magic everywhere. He is referred to by magicians all over the world, and waiters all over Madrid, as Maestro. David Blaine has called him “the greatest and most influential card magician alive.” But in Spain, Tamariz is an icon, less like Blaine or David Copperfield and more like Kermit the Frog

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