Outside the Fundació Foto Colectania

Photography lovers should swing by this minimalist-design nonprofit foundation in El Born, which hosts thought-provoking, regularly changing exhibitions from across the globe and also works to bring Catalan and Spanish photography to the world. Some shows come from the foundation’s extensive 3000-piece collection of more than 60 Spanish (especially Catalan) and Portuguese photographers from the 1950s onwards, though most are likely to be temporary exhibitions.


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