Herramientas

Herramientas is a visual essay on the "empty Spain", a large and diverse extension of land made up of small municipalities, towns and villages that have lost most of their population to larger cities over the last decades.

In recent years, these areas have been rebranded by the media as the "emptied Spain", a name meant to reflect the lack of investment from government and business and the slow abandonment of their houses and streets. Many of these towns are located in interior Spain, dry land that is subject to large-scale wildfires every year.

Developed in 2011. Revisited in 2019.