A story about arriving in a new hometown – and how a failed New Year’s Eve turned into something better.
Photographic zine · A5 · 28 pages
Language: English
Handmade · limited edition
2025
Text, photography, layout: Bennett Encke
Official release: 30.01.2026 at Time is the new space.
Shipping from February onwards.
What makes a city special? This photo book explores the personal sides of Barcelona through the perspectives of 60 writers and four photographers.
432 pages · Hardcover with dust jacket · 24,5 x 30 cm
150 photographs with text
Language: German, Spanish, Catalan
First Edition
Releasing mid-October 2024
ISBN 978-3-9818128-8-6
Publisher: edition esefeld & traub
Editor: Ronald Grätz
Photographers: Bennett Encke, Werner Lorke, Walter Schels, Peter Knaup
Authors: various
Alongside the book, a reprint of Chapter 1 – Besi, Tres Xemeneies, Barcelona accompanies the order. This small, standalone photographic zine extends the purchase with an additional photographic time document, capturing the final moments of the tunnel boring machine (TBM) that drilled Barcelona’s L9 metro extension from west to east across the city (read more).
Reprint of the first chapter of the limited edition photo book Besi, Tres Xemeneies, Barcelona (2023).
Chapter 1 on Besi and the abandoned Linea 9 tunnel.
Photographic zine · A5 · 32 pages
Language: English
Self-published · limited edition of 50 copies
2025
Text, photography: Bennett Encke
Mobility utopia, dirty coal, geo-engineering, and high vantage points in Barcelona.
72 pages · Hardback · 30 × 21 cm
63 photographs with text
Language: English
2023
Self-published · Limited edition of 50 copies
Text & photography: Bennett Encke
Layout: juicimarci
Barcelona, told in four chapters: From an abandoned tunnel-boring machine hidden below the city, to the iconic Tres Xemeneies on the so-called “Playa del Chernobyl.” From underground water reservoirs shaped by ecological modernism, to aerial views revealing every neighbourhood from above.
