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Issue 30-31

Bilbao
Exploring the City You Grew Up In Chronology Behind the Bilbao Effect: An Overnight Success in 20 Years 20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects The American Houses of Bilbao A Bastion of Design Bilbao and the Magazine Nueva Forma The Vizcaya Amusement Park: A Story of Broken Dreams Turning Point One: 1983 Flooding Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City Three Key Organizations: Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium Men of Steel in a Grey Landscape Apoptosis The Alhóndiga Cultural Center and Other Architectural Dreams The Abando Passenger Interchange: A Project Traveling Over Eighty Years Metro Bilbao Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation Turning Point Two: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Setting Up New Relationships Between City and Nature Zigzags in Mina del Morro IDOM Offices Lasesarre Football Stadium Jesús Galíndez Slope and Paul Casals Square Reurbanization of the Nervión River Docks The Many Effects of the Guggenheim Effect A Disappearing Bilbao A City in Film Botxero Stores The Second Strategic Plan for Bilbao Landscapes and Networks in the the City-Region: The Basque City A Place in Transition A New Zorrotzaurre Perfect Future Architects’ Role in the Future City Words, Desires, and Memories Postcards from Bilbao

Photo Essay

Botxero Stores

March 27, 2017

Text and photographs by Diego Sanz.

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I started this photo series in 2008 when, during my daily walks, I started to notice that all the small stores that had existed forever began to slowly disappear.

My intention was to document the life of neighborhood stores, a reflection of the centenary identity of a city that disappears amid franchises and new businesses that come and go.

I photograph the stores from the street in a frontal and cold way, from a pedestrian perspective. I am interested in the façade and the signs, but also in the interior and the clients. I look for the moments that reflect a neighborhood lifestyle that it is unlikely to ever come back.

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Diego Sanz

Diego Sanz, aka Karramarro, graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country. In 2010, he joined the Bilbao-based design studio Vudumedia where he works as a graphic designer. Ever since his parents gave him his first camera at the age of 10, he’s been a photo enthusiast.