SENSO

Photography is an early love of mine. I started developing my own pictures (there was only film back then) in high school. The Lycée Français did have a photo lab and a class that I joined as soon as I was old enough to take it. I remember we could use it more or less unsupervised.

So when I started college I wanted to continue but there was not an active lab anymore when I got there. There were, though, the relics of an old lab, with machines and all, totally unused.

At the time I had a very good friend, Lisa, who was a German photographer and I asked her if she would see herself capable of helping to bring that old lab to life.

I don´t even remember how, but I found few students a year younger, who were also excited about the idea to create a photographic lab in the school, as it had had it in the past. Together we went to talk to the then director of cultural activities, Josep Maria Montaner, who let us create the COMISIÓN DE FOTOGRAFIA.

So, we cleaned up the space, rearranged the equipment, bought whatever was missing and Lisa became the ETSAB teacher of developing photographic film, so more students could learn and use the facilities as well. And now WE could use it at will 😊

We taught some students, we made an exhibition in the school and the year I was away on my exchange program, the rest of the commission did publish this little book. It is such a great memory of it. Reason why I am also adding it here.

It lasted only a couple years. After that I started working and the load in school was so huge for all of us that we did not continue it.