SOUL EARTH Navia

«Although it only appears explicitly in some photographs of this book, the presence of that poster that one has been everywhere for years when traveling through the towns of the so-called empty Spain is intuited in almost all of them and that summarizes the message of this work by José Manuel Navia : FOR SALE. Everything is sold: houses, land, horizons, even the soul of some towns whose neighbors abandoned in search of a better life or at least not so lonely. While urban and peripheral Spain are growing at an exorbitant rate, inland and rural Spain are dying to such extremes that the Spaniards themselves would be surprised if, in addition to talking about depopulation and abandonment as they often do lately, they dared to see for themselves the seriousness and extension of these two phenomena.”

Julio Llamazares , from the text of the book.