Juan 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 of Spain 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. Click the link in our bio and let us take you inside the mind of Juan Tamariz, the godfather of close-up card magic. Photograph by @ibaiacevedo.