About MÓN

MÓN began with a question with no easy answer: what do we really see when we look at the world around us?And is it us, or has journalism become a little predictable? Different stories told the same way.

We care about three things, memory, territory, the environment, which is really one thing if you look at it from far enough. A wrecked landscape tends to be a story about who lived there.

We believe oblivion has authors. We sign the opposite…

We are journalists, photographers, historians and scientists working between Barcelona, Madrid and Los Angeles… and wherever we are needed. Each piece is signed by whoever made it. When one goes through so many hands that nobody remembers whose idea it was, MÓN signs it.

We have recovered thousands of archival photographs and documents, and we keep going. A press archive that turned up at an antiques stall, the album of a sailor whose name we still don’t know… We digitise them and keep them safe. Then we go to the place, because what the papers say and what is left there rarely match. And in the end we give them back to the world, in exhibition rooms and in pieces you read on your phone.

We have few rules. If an image is a reconstruction, we say so. And whatever we couldn’t verify? We don’t present it as fact.

Do you have photographs or papers at home from a place that no longer exists? Write to us