Our project sets out to make the villages in the Spanish colonization program visible again through a review, under a contemporary gaze, of their current situation by means of photography which, as we have seen, represents a crucial means of diffusion and analysis of Architecture.
In the same breath, we would like to point out the fundamental role played by the photographer Joaquín del Palacio (Kindel)´s photographic gaze at the time when the colonization program was implemented. His photographs created back then, have served us as a starting point. These are images that, alongside those taken by other photographers commissioned by Franco’s dictatorial regime, were used with an eye on state propaganda, this being the main cause why this colonization has remained forgotten for decades, despite it being the biggest internal migration in 20th century Spain.
