Miguel Trillo has relentlessly documented the evolution of Spanish youth culture over the last 50 years. Participating in a new social, artistic and cultural movement that took place after the end of Franco's dictatorship - La Movida Madrileña - he portrayed like no one else a generation that had lost its complexes and refused the impositions of the past. The political transition, together with moral and aesthetic changes, mostly influenced by British punk, gave this rebellious youth a new form of expression and identity; a freedom that was thought to be lost.

These 17 photographs taken between 1981 and 1986-a small excerpt from Trillo's exhaustive body of work-comprise a collective portrait of a changing society in a unique and incomparable period of Spain's recent history.

Folder containing 16 photographic plates, 172 x 122 mm.
+ the image of the cover printed on the reverse side
forming a 16-piece poster, 680 x 468 mm.

After being evicted for not being able to pay the rent, several gypsy families were forced to live on the street, under the bridge of the highway passing through Badalona. Documentary photographer Jordi Oliver went there with the intention of living with them and denouncing that harsh reality through photography. After several months of visits, one of the mothers, worried about whether the social workers would take their children away, proposed an idea: "Let's write a letter to our majesty the King, he will help us."

This story tried to be published without success, until now, 26 years later.

The first feminist protest in Barcelona after Franco's regime took place in front of a women's prison in March 1976. They demanded that the nuns who ran the prison be replaced by state employees, improve living conditions for the inmates, and amnesty for crimes that discriminated against women, such as adultery, abortion or abandonment of the family.

Finally, in 1978, the nuns abruptly left the prison. While officials arrived from different parts of the country, the inmates themselves had to take charge of the infrastructure of the center. During this unexpected community exercise of self-management, photographer Pilar Aymerich managed to enter and document that historic moment.

Presas collects this previously unpublished report in its entirety, along with the testimony written by Pilar Aymerich herself, a key figure in the feminist and cultural awakening of the late Franco era and the Transition, and winner of the National Photography Award 2021.

Summer 2012, Europe is in crisis and the vulnerable southern economies are suffering the hardest blow. One of the most affected industries in Spain is coal mining, where the cut in financial aid has come abruptly. In the absence of a plan to reconvert the sector and relocate workers, the entire mining sector is getting closer to the abyss every day.

In the mining regions of Asturias and Leon, workers' anger at the threat to their future has taken the form of strikes and clashes with the police. While some believe that the miners think they are special when faced with the cuts the whole country is suffering, others admire them for defending their jobs and their communities. Faced with this perspective, the workers' conflict has been projected beyond the initial demands to conglomerate popular discontent in the face of social setbacks and the lack of a solution to the crisis.