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)

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.

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.