DECLARED VALUES
2025
DECLARED VALUES
Rosa Franco Mendoza
My first book began with photographs taken in 2007 for the Espacios en su Tiempo project at the university, which I presented in three exhibitions in Madrid, Sabadell and Barcelona.
The year 2025 brought to life the object of desire for any photographer who loves visual documentation and anthropology: the photobook.
Between the lens and culture: art that connects worlds
DECLARED VALUES
is a photographic project carried out between 2007 and 2025 at Barcelona’s historic Palace of Posts and Telegraphs, a listed Local Cultural Heritage Site.
For eighteen years, I have documented its interior spaces, architecture and the traces left by generations of workers. My perspective is also shaped by personal experience: more than thirty-five years working at Correos, observing the transformation of an institution that for over a century was essential to the city’s communications and everyday life.
From a documentary, sociological and anthropological perspective, the project explores the relationship between memory, work and place.
The spaces photographed transcend their administrative function to become living archives, where gestures, routines, knowledge, and ways of relating remain inscribed—things that rarely appear in official accounts.
The gradual transformation of these buildings raises questions about what we preserve and what we forget as cities change. Beyond documenting a distinctive architectural style, the images reflect on the loss of a collective memory tied to the world of work and the communication systems that have shaped contemporary society.
DECLARED VALUES offers a visual reading of tangible and intangible heritage, viewing photography as a tool for preserving and activating memories that form part of the social history of Barcelona and other cities where these buildings have played an essential role.
