This photography project takes a collective look at Barcelona and the various interventions carried out there in recent years. The aim behind it is to generate an image of all the work done in the form of numerous projects of different scales and types: from large interventions in public space, new amenities and social housing, to small interventions in the redevelopment of streets and squares.

To generate a document that is as uniform as possible and that coherently brings together all the most relevant aspects of these latest contributions to the city, it was decided to divide the selected projects into a series of layers of interest corresponding to a specific aspect of the interventions that runs through all of these city projects or part of them. Each layer was assigned to a photographer who carried out a scan according to that particular focus. This allowed the photographers to generate their own view of the city as a whole (not just part of it), but bounded by the field assigned to them. Instead of an exhaustive approach to a place —and having to represent it at different scales and from different points of view— the photographers explored a specific direction, a particular vision of the whole city.

We wanted to distance ourselves from the traditional way of carrying out this type of photography project that divides the territory into areas, each assigned to a photographer. This produces a fragmented result, with each photographer working on a specific space, and the end result is a patchwork of photographic interpretations that prevent an overview of the territory. This proposal, however, rather than seeing different areas through different eyes, brings the same approach to the whole.

Ten photographers worked in parallel, each focussing on their point of view: the general layout of parks and new green areas was photographed by Milena Villalba; the redevelopment of streets and the introduction of vegetation into hard built areas by Pedro Pegenaute; elements of public space and interaction with people by Andrés Flajszer; night-time public space by Aitor Estévez; the aerial view by Jon Tugores; detailed greenery by Simona Rota; biodiversity by Xavi Bou with Joan Diví; new social housing and facilities, and the relationship with the city by Adrià Goula; the interiors of facilities as new public spaces by Pol Viladoms, and the personalization of public housing interiors by their occupants by Maite Caramés. Each presented some 60 final photos, producing a photographic body of about 600 images of the city.

Each of these partial yet intentional approaches generates a multifaceted series of views that explains the complexity of the interventions from different viewpoints. The sum of the views of the different photographers responsible for the projects carried out is what gives us a more complete reading of each. In some of the projects of greater complexity, there are more overlapping layers than in others, but the end result is this collective yet homogeneous look at the projects represented.

Finally, this series of images can be ordered in two ways, corresponding to the two volumes you have before you. In the first, a selection of photos by each photographer appears with the title of their layer of interest, exploring the particular, personal vision that generates ten visions of Barcelona. In the second volume, the interventions are explained one by one by means of the different overlapping visions. These two volumes complement each other and offer the most complete, coherent view possible of all the projects carried out and new contributions in the city of Barcelona in recent years.