I was born in Barcelona in 1972 and grew up in Subirats (Alt Penedès), in a household shaped by my parents' work as ceramicists, painters and sculptors. At fifteen I returned to Barcelona to study Graphic Arts, sustaining the work through fanzines, independent magazines and an obstinate commitment to photography that has never let up.
I am a photographer, graphic editor and cultural activist based in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona. Over twenty years working in cultural photography: blues, jazz, performing arts, festivals, street. I work by hand — from 35 mm to large-format 10×8" — developing and printing my own work in the darkroom at my studio inside Nau Bostik.
I do not understand photography as decoration but as language: something to be read, edited and, when necessary, challenged. I am interested in images that carry weight, not just surface. Projects that speak of territory, memory and social context.
Keeping analogue photography alive in the digital era is not nostalgia. It is a deliberate stance against speed, excess and the disappearance of photographic craft.
Commissioned photography
Professional coverage of festivals, concerts, performing arts and cultural events. Photographer linked to the Barcelona Blues Festival since 2002. Official photographer of the Barcelona Tattoo Expo (2002–2015). Album covers for Barcelona Big Blues Band, Big Dani Pérez, Bernat Font Trio and Joan Pau Cumellas, among others.
Request a quoteGraphic editing & photobooks
Founder of 112 Books, an independent photobook publisher. I accompany new authors through every stage: from concept to print. Editing is an act of responsibility — not every image deserves to be printed.
112books.euPhotography education
Teacher of analogue photography, experimental processes and alternative techniques at Llumàtics since 2017 and at the Lomography Embassy Barcelona since 2011. I organise sessions for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day at Nau Bostik.
Llumatics.comTechnology consulting
Through LinuxBCN we offer technology consulting with over 30 years of experience: free and open-source software, web development, design, servers and secure digital infrastructure. We also work with the latest applied artificial intelligence tools.
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40 Years of Blues in Barcelona
A portrait project documenting the protagonists of the blues scene in Barcelona. Large-format analogue photography. Publication: autumn 2026.
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The Graphic Editor — A Survival Manual
Too many publications look like they were made by chance: poorly selected images, buried texts, visual decisions with no criterion. Nobody takes responsibility. This book was born from the need to bring order.
It is not a poetic manual or a collection of gentle advice: it is a working tool and a warning. The graphic editor is not a decorator or a software operator — they are the person who assumes responsibility for visual content with the same rigour as a text editor assumes responsibility for words. The image does not accompany the content — it is part of it.
Aimed at professionals, students and project managers who understand that images are content with their own responsibility. The goal: tools, criteria and references to do the work with rigour and raise the quality of any publication.
Books
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2026
La sacsejada interior: Antropoformologies III
Third volume of the series. A visual and textual journey exploring fragility, tension and the limits of the gaze through photography and fragmented writing.
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2026
Una bèstia i una sola llum: Antropoformologies II
Second volume where photography and dance meet without a script. A direct encounter between photographer and dancer: improvisation, gesture, presence.
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2026
El naixement d'una bèstia: Antropoformologies I
First volume. An exploration of bodily transformation through dance, light and visual rhythm.
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2025
Anónimos, más allá de las apariencias
Collaboration with Mario Ortiz. Analogue portraits and short texts exploring identity and human fragility.
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2024
I Wanna Be Your Dog
83 photographs on the relationship between humans and dogs in Barcelona. Inspired by The Stooges.
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2024
aCarrejant
Urban photography photobook of Barcelona. 84 pages, 24×15 cm.
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2022
Preses Falses – 40 anys de Blues a Barcelona
Portraits of the protagonists of Barcelona's blues scene. All shot on analogue with a Hasselblad 500 and hand-developed by the author.
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2020
Incoherencias. Una pequeña historia del absurdo
Collaborative photobook with Alfonso de Castro. Interior landscape and absurd reality.
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2020
Pedrola (Wet Shadows)
Orthochromatic analogue photographs from a cold day on the river Ebro.
- 2002–presentPhotographer linked to the Barcelona Blues Festival
- 2002–presentDocumentary photographer for 9 Barris Imatge and 9 Barris Acull
- 2002–2017Cultural programme board, Casal de barri de Prosperitat
- 2002–2015Official photographer, Barcelona Tattoo Expo
- 2011–presentTeacher, Lomography Embassy Barcelona
- 2017–presentTeacher, Llumàtics
- 2020Founded 112 Books
- Sep. 2020–presentResident and active participant in the self-management of Nau Bostik
- CulturaB Portraits of 40 years of Blues in Barcelona
- The New Barcelona Post Joan Linux Martínez: snapshots in blue night