It is in all of us

February 6, 2025

It is in all of us

“DIFFERENT PEOPLE make journeys for different reasons. Sometimes they’re forced; sometimes they think they choose.” — In the Dark Places of Wisdom, Peter Kingsley [p.15]

“It Is in All of Us” is an ongoing research project that explores the connection between art and magic, tracing a path through the Sibyls, the Maenads, the ancient feminine cults, and the healing practices of the Iatromantis to help us remember our magical origins. It takes the form of both an inner and outer journey.

In the End, You Always Reach Your Destination

December 7, 2019

In 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. It is assumed that other passengers are not interested in their companions either, that everyone shares the unspoken rule of non-existence within the same space… Perhaps it is more of a shared non-perception, a self-imposed blindness. If we didn’t carry cameras but looked with the same presence that this book has when looking through our eyes, we would likely face the same issue—a transgression. Someone might smile, yes… but they would be the exception.

Passengers Vol. III

December 7, 2019

Heaven

November 10, 2017

2010-2017
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. “Heaven” is a dummy that captures how I would like to create it. The photographs were printed using a Fuji SQ10 to translate the instant feeling of the original Instagram and the Passengers project onto a real copy.

S'Arenal Summertime 2016

April 2, 2017

2016-2017  
Magazine, 36 pages, 22×28 cm (Letter format)

S’Arenal Summertime 2016

“… the fundamental thing I am constantly exploring is the difference between the mythology of a place and the reality of it.” ( Martin Parr por Martin Parr, La Fábrica, 2010)

22.2

April 23, 2015

22.2

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.

Traces (personal drifts)

March 15, 2015

Traces (personal drifts)

Traces is a series of unplanned walks through urban landscape based on Guy Debord’s Dérive (“Drifts”).

The purpose of the walk is to take pictures, nothing else. It´s always circular: it starts and ends at the same point. It happens within one day. I let my subconscious choose direction. I shoot whenever I see anything that catches my eye, no matter what it is. I don’t look for any correlation to the other series I’m working on but don’t reject it either.

Traces - 2013.12.07 - Barcelona

May 2, 2014

Traces - 2013.12.07 - Barcelona

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. The starting point for each author as well who would be his editor was chosen by a drawing. The same day the route was completed; each photographer turned in 100 photos in order for another author to select 21 of them.

Passengers 2012

November 16, 2013

Participative Processes on the Web: Making of Passengers 2012

November 16, 2013

Participative 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. We make the same distinction, but we call them participatory and collaborative processes.

Software Factories

June 25, 2013

Remember a factory… an early 20th-century one. You may recall some iconic images by Lewis W. Hine.

We need to photograph our 21st-century factories. I capture the spaces where I work as a software engineer.

Store fronts

June 3, 2013

2008-2012

In my routine drifts, I always get caught by store fronts, even though I no longer publish my project, I still capture images.

Ubiquography a real-time world-wide mobile photography exhibition

May 20, 2012

Ubiquography is an exhibition that aims to make people think about the traits that define mobile photography: ubiquity and immediacy.

http://ubiquography.com/

Participants capture, edit and publish their pictures using their phones and they are instantly displayed in the exhibition (inreal-time) emphasizing the immediacy aspect.

The exhibition will be simultaneously held in different cities around the world, in very diverse and distant locations, making the exhibition ubiquitous.

Mobile networked photography can’t be explained like traditional photography. A bunch of prints on a wall will never be able to explain to the public what this new photographic paradigm really means. Our full statement can be found here.

From the Kodak Brownie to the iPhone

December 20, 2011

From 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.

Passengers

December 20, 2011

Passengers

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.

“Arrinconado” (Cornered)

April 25, 2011

Arrinconado (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.

Es lloga (For Rent)

February 23, 2010

Es lloga (For Rent)

2009-2010

“Unemployment keeps rising in Spain, punishing with the most cruelty small and medium-seize businesses. It is estimated that every day 500 independent contractors lose their jobs and every week about 4000 businesses are forced to close. The small and medium-size Catalan companies will demonstrate again tomorrow before the Congress…” (11-17-2009 “La Vanguardia” Newspaper. Barcelona. )

The closure of thousands of small businesses is only one facet of a more complex drama. Every store that closes affects its owner, its employees, its providers and all of their families.

22

January 22, 2010

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