Photographic exhibition about Arenys de Mar graveyard

It is a great pleasure to invite you to attend to the opening of the photographic exhibition:

“Cementiri. Una mirada nocturna”
Fotografies de llarga exposició al cementiri d’Arenys de Mar

Fotografies de llarga exposició al cementiri d'arenys

The poet Salvador Espriu introduced the Cementiri de Sinera to the world. Build in a singular location at Mediterranean sea shore over an small hill, the beauty of this place lets the poet to write about it in his work.

The graveyard is also a singular sculptural ensemble with several “Art Nouveau” examples and with deep seagoing roots

The Arenys de Mar council in collaboration with l’Agrupació Fotogràfica d’Arenys de Mar present this exhibition where it will be possible to see a graveyard side that normally it is not available to the visitor: the nocturne one.

Every body is invited!

As a photographer who is living in Arenys I had participated to the collective exhibition with the following three pictures. Shooting this pictures has been an unique experience for me because of the location singularity and the difficulties produced by the absence of light:

Fotografies per a l'exposició del cementiri d'Arenys

This pictures belongs to Album Arenys graveyard

The forgotten stones

The forgotten stones

Sant Felip Neri square. Barcelona.

Sant Felip Neri square is one of my Barcelona favourite locations. Placed deep in the Gothic quarter, a little unaware of the tourism, it looks like the stones of its buildings are showing to the visitor how was the city centuries ago.

But in reality, this apparently peaceful square is hiding to the not much informed visitor its real history.

During the Spanish civil war, on January 30th, 1938, the general Franco air force launched one of the first raids of the military history against civil population. The square was hit by one bomb. 42 people die that day, 20 of them young children that were searching for protection against the planes inside the church of Sant Felip Neri.

The square was fully destroyed only with the exception of the church front, where still today we can see the scares caused by the bomb grapeshot. Scares that, if we don’t know about its origin, wouldn’t tell us anything when we cross in front of them.

The square was rebuild about 1950 with debris taken from other locations of the Gothic quarter.

This picture belongs to Album Barcelona fotowalk