Manolo Laguillo (Madrid, 1953) is a professor of photography at the University of Barcelona and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona. His oeuvre, which he began in 1976, focuses on the representation of cities in line with debates on the tensions of urban growth in the fields of geography, anthropology, history and sociology. He has worked in numerous Spanish cities, and also in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Mexico, the United States, the Maghreb, Lebanon, Ethiopia and Japan. As a documentary photographer, he is aware of the need to reflect upon the limits of the medium, and so has written several reference books that investigate key aspects of the theory and technique of photography.
Manolo Laguillo (Madrid, 1953) is a professor of photography at the University of Barcelona and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona. His oeuvre, which he began in 1976, focuses on the representation of cities in line with debates on the tensions of urban growth in the fields of geography, anthropology, history and sociology. He has worked in numerous Spanish cities, and also in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Portugal, Mexico, the United States, the Maghreb, Lebanon, Ethiopia and Japan. As a documentary photographer, he is aware of the need to reflect upon the limits of the medium, and so has written several reference books that investigate key aspects of the theory and technique of photography.