Books Book: Passengers Vol. III Fanzine: Susurros Art book: Heaven Book: CODE by R.Mutt Magazine: S’Arenal Summertime 2016 Art book: Shared Folder (Red box) Fanzine: 22.2 Book collection: Traces Book: Passengers 2012 Book: Passengers Book: Arrinconado Art book and site-specific: 22
December 7, 2019In the End, You Always Reach Your Destination “Doesn’t anyone notice? Doesn’t anyone complain?” I’m often asked these questions when people see my photos of passengers. I understand them, to some extent. Even though the spaces where we photograph are public, the moments are intimate. In the madness of urban overcrowding, we seek intimacy in the anonymity of the crowd. Observing that space seems unsettling to those who consider it private. ...
December 7, 2019Passengers Vol. III Passengers Vol. III concludes the trilogy with photographs taken between 2013 and 2015. The book features 42 images by 12 authors, selected from an initial pool of 7,515 images by 71 photographers. The first selection round took over a year. Editors could vote to accept an image as part of the new book through an individual online process. After so much selection work, we weren’t sure if we could create another book with a cohesive thread… until we saw the images chosen by the four editors together. ...
May 29, 2019Susurros (Whispers) Technical data 2019 Fanzine 20 Pages, A5. Open source subtitle editing for the movie Ghost in the Shell: Innocence. The concept of ‘readymade’ is based on the principles of uncreative writing. While creative writing demands originality, inspiration, and expression of subjectivity, uncreative writing is based on copying, methodology, and removing the author. A valid way to create literature is to try to suppress expressivity and use the techniques of reproduction and plagiarism, taking advantage of the hyperabundance of language generated by the contemporary world. ...
November 10, 20172010-2017 Art book. 23 x 16 x 1 cm. 31 Instax Square pictures. Heaven In 2010 I noticed that a group of friends from Barcelona Photobloggers were taking very good photos of commuters. I couldn’t resist the idea of creating a collaborative project using Instagram API (very open those days). Passengers became a worldwide collaborative project that resulted in three books. I was always thinking about creating my own book. ...
April 2, 20172016-2017 Magazine, 36 pages, 22×28 cm (Letter format) A 50 copy limited edition, numbered and signed for the “Ciutat de Vacances” (Vacation City) exhibition. Printed on 130g paper and 170g paper for the cover, stapled. Available at the Es Baluard Museum Shop or by request at contact@fransimo.info Print-on-demand edition. Printed on 118g matte paper, semi-glossy 216 g paper for the cover, rustic binding. Available for on-line purchase. Digital edition available through: Apple iBooks, Amazon Kindle (free), Issue and in PDF. ...
April 23, 201522.2 Technical details 2000-2014 Fanzine, edition of 100 signed fanzines of 24 pages is 19×13,4cm printed en matt coated paper of 170gr. 22.2 is the second version of 22. It compares the original photographs, taken between 2000 and 2009, with new shots of June 2014. 22 and 22.2 portray the transformation of Poblenou from the post-industrial oblivion toward the “new” Barcelona.
May 2, 2014Traces - 2013.12.07 - Barcelona Technical details 2012-2014 Transmedia participative project: app, book collection, video and exhibition. Traces is a collective project that provides a chance to experience a dérive [literally: “drifting”, a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances] and verify its capacity to document urban space from different perspectives while using a common methodology and creating a psychogeographical map of Barcelona. Following the concept of a dérive proposed by Guy Debord, on the 7th of December, 2013, seven authors photographed the city, guided by intuition. ...
November 16, 2013Passengers 2012 Passengers is a website as well as a series of street photography books about the passengers who use public transport. The project was developed as a web participatory concept. All of the images were captured with mobile devices and published on Instagram. The website gives a real time look at participation while the books are a visual contemplation about public transport passengers, mobile device aesthetics and street photography. ...
November 16, 2013Participative Processes on the Web: Making of Passengers 2012 We thought it would be interesting to explain how this book was developed. Barcelona Photobloggers have been producing participative web projects since 2006, some of them in collaboration with important cultural entities of Barcelona city. We’ve often noticed interest in our approach to work and organization. In writings, two types of participative processes are distinguished. Some call them participatory art and some – participatory projects. ...
December 20, 2011From the Kodak Brownie to the iPhone Although iPhoneography might seem to be about a group of addicted fans and technobuffs who cannot stop using their mobile phone, it is in reality the continuation of a trend that began with the advent of the Kodak Brownie in February 1900 and has been developing since then. The Kodak Brownie is recognised as the beginning of photography for the masses and with it was born the term “snapshot”: a photograph taken quickly without thinking, without any artistic or documentary intent, usually blurry, badly framed and in which the subject is usually a scene from everyday life, such as birthdays, sunsets, pets or travel. ...
December 20, 2011Passengers Passengers is a street photography project, in both web and book series form, about anonymous public transport passengers. It’s designed as a participative online project. All the images are captured by mobile devices and published on Instagram. The site is a “real-time view” of the participation process. The book is a visual meditation on public transport passengers and the aesthetics of street photography using mobile devices. From the Kodak Brownie to the iPhone is a text I wrote for the book. ...
April 25, 2011Arrinconado (Cornered) Project “Arrinconado” (Cornered) starts a new era for Barcelona Photobloggers. The objective was to create a collaborative project with a horizontal organization in which all of the members would have an opportunity to participate in every aspect of creation, from definition to production, and which would lead to a work authored by the group and not by a gathering of various authors in the same space. The path traveled during the year and a half of work presented a challenge, the most important part of which was the creative process itself, as well as the reflective experience and the exchange of ideas and methodologies. ...
January 22, 201022 Technical details 2000-2009 Book Self-published, 21×29 cm, 26 pages, laser color printing on recycled paper, manual binding. Edition: 10 books + 1 artist proof Site-specific installation at Centre Civi Pati Llimona. 6x3m space with, various objects and photographs. 22 photographs (21 of A4 y one copy of 150x100cm), laser color printing on recycled paper, framed on cardboard. 200 photographs 10x15cm standard photo paper. Single copies. It’s available in a limited printed edition and ebook in English and Spanish. ...