Barcelona 2020
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The fact that a journalist of the written press, an editor for more than thirty years, suddenly starts writing with pictures, taking photos, can only mean two things: either he is gone mad or the world has been so reversed that it is not recognizable anymore. Jordi Panyella (Barcelona, 1966) is still writing in the newspaper El Punt Avui, as he always has, but the world has now changed radically. And specially in his city, following the brutal impact of the crisis of the Covid-19. Through a story woven with images taken during two months of confinement, Barcelona 2020 unfolds the every day life in the city, this wonderful city, its streets and its people during a unique spring, empty of life, full of fear and horror, struggles and hope. It is the visual chronicle of a historic event that will determine a whole generation. It is a unique story, full of emotions, the graphic testimony of unrepeatable days.
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If your eyes see it, it’s true, it has been true.
To words, so they always honor the memory of those who are not among us anymore.
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Suddenly the world is as new as unknown, and words, the everyday tool, become superfluous. The language of the ancient world is now history. Everything that is to be seen talks for itself, no need to put pen to paper. The story becomes a visual parade on a trip from the deepest, painful, dreadful silence into the most unreal and histrionic implausibility. An abyss on the streets, but also at home.
For a journalist used to live and see the news from the barrier of the privileged first row, from the red line that requires the non-interference in the events that are to be explained, living inside such gigantic news becomes an exceptional, unique and unrepeatable experience. Suddenly, the streets become an endless source of newsworthy stories in a chain of events that must be explained, each and every single one of them, because now everything is new, the prophecy of an unknown reality. There are not enough eyes to look, not enough lens for so many unique images waiting to be captured.
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