Photograph by Javier Campano, building surrounded by a construction fence, a man and a child cross paths on the sidewalk in the Hortaleza neighborhood

So it was... PHotoESPAÑA Exhibition: Javier Campano. Barrios. Madrid 1976-1980

AddToAny

The Eagle. Completed. June 11 - September 8, 2024.

Exhibition Javier Campano. Neighborhoods. Madrid 1976-1980 showed us the transformation of Madrid in the late 70s through the close and vindictive gaze of one of its great photographers. Javier Campano (Madrid, 1950) knew how to document the corners of a city in full transformation, with great contrasts and urban problems derived from the rural exodus, the tree demographic of the previous decade and unprecedented construction development.

The inhabitants of neighbourhoods such as Orcasitas, Tetuán, Lavapiés and Barrio del Pilar opened their doors to him, making him witness to their precarious conditions and their neighbourhood struggles. Campano's camera reveals rural iconography surrounded by tall red brick blocks: children playing football in an open field in Hortaleza or clothes hanging on the facades of a village in Vallecas.

The exhibition was curated by Ana Berruguete and organized by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage and the Spanish Language Office of the Community of Madrid and PHotoESPAÑA.