Josep Planas at work | image from Planas Archive

As Spain struggles with overtourism, The Guardian recounts Mallorca’s transformation from rural idyll into a mass tourism destination using photos from a unique photo archive in Mallorca, from the PHOTOCONSORTIUM member Casa Planas.

Founded in 2015 by the artist Marina Planas, the Casa Planas cultural centre houses Europe’s largest photographic archive devoted to mass tourism. The archive includes work by Josep Planas i Montanyà, Mallorca’s leading photographer of the island’s tourist boom, in time to capture the touristic, economic and social developments on the island during the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

Read The Guardian’s article here.