Crime Scenes: Landscape, Memory and Atrocity in Jorge Barbi’s <i>El Final, Aquí</i>

Jorge Barbi’s book El Final, Aqui (The End, Here) is a collection of 60 beautifully composed, predominantly rural and always uninhabited landscapes taken throughout Spain. All the images share common secret: these remote locations are crime scenes, out way places where Republicans were executed by Francoists during or after Spanish Civil War. Barbi states: ‘Places not witnesses anything, do see us; we recreate them [..] apparently nothing ever happened, until invisible memory they contain fills with uniqueness.’ The function his photographs in to precipitate such shift, actively overlooked as abiding sites memory.