The Centre of the World
A journey made the other way round: instead of moving around the world, the world moved around him.
Photobook
- Medium
- Photography, Book design
- Made as
- Personal project
- Where
- Barcelona
- When
- Photographed 2009 to 2012
- Subjects
- 151 travellers
The Centre of the World was a travel I made the other way around. Instead of moving around the world I made the world move around me.
Between 2009 and 2012 I hosted 151 tourists that were traveling in Barcelona and asked for free accommodation through the Couch Surfing website. During that time, the Centre of the World was my home, in Barcelona.
With the idea to portrait people from all the countries of the World, for three years I photographed all the tourists that I hosted in my home. To be portrayed, they were asked to choose an object they were traveling with and another from my home.
This was the first website I ever built. 2009 was a long time ago — the era of Adobe Flash, before everyone had a smartphone in their pocket — and thecentreoftheworld.net no longer resolves.
