Esplugues City Hall Photography Service

A city moves fast. An official event, a street festival, a match, a school show… and if you do not photograph it, it is gone. Esplugues City Council needed someone who would always be there, with a good eye and proper kit, to leave a visual record of how the city moves.

And to deliver it ready to use, with no waiting: the press release goes out the same day, and the photo has to be there before it.

We have spent more than eight years putting a face to everything that happens in Esplugues, and often to what is harder to see. Official events, street festivals, cultural, sporting, educational and community events. We do it as a joint venture: Desvern Imatge and Humbert Blanco, two teams so there is always someone.

We do not just turn up to take photos: we turn up to tell stories and catch the moment. An opening speech, a revetlla (night festival), an official visit, a charity run, a ceramics biennial: every event asks for a different eye and a frame that works tomorrow in the paper and in ten years in the archive.

We work side by side with the Communication department, adapting to each situation: what the press needs, what social media needs, what the municipal archive needs.

And we deliver in record time: edited, sorted and ready. Because Esplugues never stops, and neither do we. A good part of that work ends up in the Council’s public archive, which is now past 33,000 photographs.

Institutional photography is not measured by the pretty photo. It is measured by the one that arrives on time, and by the one that in twenty years shows what the city was like. The key is always being there, looking properly and delivering fast. In that order.