Xavier Miserachs crafted the greatest records of the transformation of our society in the 1960s. Immigration, tourism, changing habits and more have made Miserachs’s work an essential tool to gain information, find nuances and discover feelings capable of recreating the experiences of this period from our history.

This is an example of the best documentary work; that which gives us a vision that transcends description to delve deeper into experience, into that poetic interpretation of reality that is able to generate meaning about the past and which, despite being personal and thus subjective, is not invented. What Xavier did is still vital today. It would be a shame to overlook the documentary function of photography with its enormous power to evoke an exchange of feelings between the photographer and the viewer based on a shared commitment to address the reality of the world. We need documents of all types about the greatest possible number of aspects of our shared existence. We need moving testimonies about the most critical aspects of society, as well as more profound interpretations of the more mundane facets.

Associated with Xavier Miserachs, the II Biennal de Fotografia in Palafrugell is able to carry out an enormous evocative effort as a platform to concentrate the demand for documentary culture from a modern point of view, covering everything ranging from the change in how meanings are created, to transforming the ways of producing documents and helping to transform the world.

Pepe Baeza, visual editor of La Vanguardia