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Txema Salvans: Sunday Morning

Txema Salvans: Sunday Morning

hardcover English 128 pages 26 × 30 900 g

Description

In *Sunday Morning*, Txema Salvans spends ten years returning, on sunny Sundays, to the roof of his van overlooking a supermarket car park on the outskirts of Barcelona. From this unpromising setting, he photographs people who have made an ordinary commercial space into a place for lingering: practical errands, brief rests, solitary rituals and efforts to suspend the passage of time.

The book’s subject is not spectacle but repetition. Salvans’s patience and consistency allow small variations in posture, distance, weather and social arrangement to accumulate into a portrait of leisure at the urban periphery. The parking lot appears at once empty and crowded, functional and strangely theatrical. Its banality becomes the condition for an attentive study of how people occupy leftover spaces and construct private meaning within them.

Salvans works from a position that is both fixed and detached. The elevated viewpoint separates the photographer from the scene while preserving its awkwardness and human scale; the resulting photographs observe without turning everyday behaviour into anecdote or explanation. Across the sequence, the ordinary is sharpened through recurrence, and isolated encounters begin to resonate as a broader social composition.

For collectors of contemporary documentary and photobook practice, *Sunday Morning* deserves attention for the clarity of its premise and the discipline of its execution. Published by RM as a 128-page English-language hardcover, the book presents a sustained body of work in which duration, location and viewpoint are inseparable from meaning. Its distinctive achievement lies in making an overlooked edge of urban life feel formally precise without losing its quiet, unresolved humanity.

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