Unknown City Beneath the Mist. New Images from Barcelona's Peripheries

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This photographic project about Barcelona as seen from the suburbs sprang up as a result of postwar migration to the city, is in line with the tradition of local photographic projects about urban development since the Olympic era. A critical and civil tradition that sees photography as a counter-discourse to advertising.

Historically, the periphery has always been the most innovative part of the city, the place where emerging tendencies first manifest themselves. Hence, a project about the periphery will work as a future prospect of the evolution of Barcelona in the next few years and offer significant documentation about the city during the current decade.

In the past, Barcelona’s suburbs have grown in two opposite geographic areas: the north and north-west zone, from the Besòs River to the hills of Collserola, and the south and south-east zone, which includes the historic center of the Raval and the Gothic Quarter, and the back of Montjuïc, which borders with the harbor and the Zona Franca.

The project includes thirteen commissioned works, some of a transversal character spanning different neighborhoods, and others constructed as field studies of a more specific nature. Their focus is also varied, with some purely topographic, while others address social issues.

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