CRISI

I’m JC, London based Visual Artist, and this is my Personal Project ‘Crisi’, where I explore how the 2008 economic recession affected the local economy of my neighbourhood in Barcelona forcing hundreds of high street businesses to shut down.

One day in early 2013, while walking around the neighbourhood where I lived in Barcelona, I noticed that a lot of high street businesses had shut down due to the economic recession. I realised then that this really proved how bad the situation was because the basis of Barcelona's economy had always been its small businesses. I began photographing with my iPhone all the empty retail spaces that I found in order to document the magnitude of the damage. These are the 173 empty spaces that I photographed in a matter of two weeks.

The location of the 173 retail spaces (click to enlarge).