Our project aims to make the towns of the Spanish colonization program visible once again by revisiting their current state through a contemporary lens, using photography as a crucial medium for the dissemination and analysis of architecture.
At the same time, we would like to highlight the fundamental role played by the gaze of photographer Joaquín del Palacio (Kindel) at the time the colonization program was implemented. His photographs, created back then, served as our starting point. These images, along with those taken by other photographers commissioned by Franco's dictatorial regime, were used with an eye toward state propaganda—the primary reason this colonization program remained forgotten for decades, despite representing the largest internal migration in 20th-century Spain.
