This is a photobook
… that aims to cover the topics of gentrification, alienation and loss of traditional culture.
In Spain, quioscos are street-based, small newspaper posts that were conventionally owned by a person or a family. These were ingrained in the common folk daily routine, and long-life relationships were created in this process.
Today, as society has become more liquid due to several factors (e.g., inability to live in the place you were raised or born), these bonds are being slowly erased, and quioscos are being targeted as an investment rather than a way of living. We’re industrializing quioscos, just as bread was also industralized and turned into a Fordian chain.
Production
These concepts are formalized in a magazine-like photobook, of thin newspaper-like paper, which each kind of quiosco own a side of it, as they are two faces of the same coin and are directly opposite to each other.
The book can be read from front to back and back to front, retaining the same narrative either way you start it. Both sides are accompanied by an interview text from each quiosquero or salesperson.
Shot on Canon EOS1300D, digital development, writing and graphic design by me.
