The project
MÓN began with a question with no easy answer: what do we really see when we look at the world around us? Founded between Barcelona and Madrid, we are a visual journalism organisation that works with memory, territory, and the environment because these three things are, in truth, inseparable.
A devastated landscape is always a story about the people who lived there. A forgotten archive is always a political decision. MÓN exists because we believe journalism should do more than inform. It should make you stop and be creative! It should make you uncomfortable… It should force you to reconsider what you thought you already knew…
Through archival research, contemporary photography, and hybrid visual languages, we pursue stories that others overlook or choose to forget, because forgetting is never innocent, and looking away is always a choice.
What we do
We develop long-term visual projects and seek support from foundations, institutions, media outlets, and NGOs that, like us, believe the stories worth telling are rarely the easy ones. Our work takes shape through photography exhibitions, books, data-driven investigations, digital narratives, and experimental formats that we are still learning to name. We do this because the stories demand it… That’s what we want to believe! A single photograph cannot hold the complexity of a territory transformed by decades of political neglect… A conventional report cannot capture what it feels like to walk through a place that has ceased to resemble itself.
This way of working has brought us to collaborate with National Geographic Spain and the Associated Press, to present projects at Rencontres d’Arles, the Lumínic Festival or the Fira Internacional del Libro in Bogotá, and to publish our photobook Petroleum. Our work has been recognised by the Royal Photographic Society and shown at the Basque Dok Festival, among others. These are not credentials, but proof that this kind of journalism, slow, difficult, uncomfortable, still has a place in the world. And we intend to keep widening that place!
Meet the team
Susan Sontag: “To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge, and therefore like power.”