It was born in 2007 with the idea of \u200b\u200bobserving the landscape and its evolution as a result of the reissue of the book “Botigues de Palma”. It was a work of photographs of commercial establishments in Palma from the early 80s. It was then that “we decided to show the changes that the passage of time prints on these elements of the everyday landscape by adding an updated photograph of them”, explains Jaume Gual Carbonell, one of the coordinators of the Observatori Fotogr\u00e0fic del Paisatge de les Illes Balears (OFP). “The book was out of print and the exhibition that accompanied it, at the Museum of Mallorca, was very well received by the public.”<\/p>\n
Since then, this Photographic Landscape Observatory, framed in the Research Group ‘Audiovisual heritage, mass media and illustration’, of the UIB, has emerged as a witness to the passage of time on the islands. \u201cWe realized the importance of the spaces in which they have lived for people. That made us reflect on the opportunity and the need to document, to photograph, our environment in a rigorous and structured way\u201d, Gual explains.<\/p>\n\n\t\t