Joaquín
Tusquets
de Cabirol
A Barcelona photographer who worked for four decades and was barely seen until 2020. His subject was the port, the Catalan coast, and the country inland.
Lost, then found
Joaquín Tusquets de Cabirol photographed Barcelona for more than thirty years. Most of what he made stayed out of sight until 2020, when a box of his negatives turned up. The pictures inside it document the port, the coast and the interior of Catalonia with a precision uncommon in non-professional photography of that period.
What we do
The archive was set up in 2020, the year the negatives resurfaced. Three things occupy us: looking after the holdings, studying them, and showing them. We work with the Museu Marítim de Barcelona, which holds the originals, and with Fundación Photographic Social Vision and Fundación MAPFRE.
About the archiveThe port, the vessels,
life on the quay
Three subjects hold the selection together: port activity, the ships that crossed it, and the daily life of the waterfront.
For research, press,
and institutional enquiries
Institutions, curators, researchers and the press are welcome to write to us. We also reply to private enquiries when the photographer's work is involved.
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