Girona's local archive receives 19,000 photos from the '60s to the '80s

Pictures shot by photojournalist Francesc Terradas and photographer Josep Antoni Arrayás

Children racing in Girona in a picture by Francesc Terradas taken in the 1980s / Ceded by the Girona city council

First published: August 23, 2024 04:11 PM

Girona's local archive will soon include 19,000 photographs taken between the 1960s and the 1980s by photojournalist Francesc Terradas Martínez and photographer Josep Antoni Arrayás Díaz.

Terradas, who was associated with the Catalan newspaper El Punt, took the majority of the photographs. His collection features numerous images of the city's football teams as well as social and cultural events, such as races, walks, and performances held during the Fires de Girona fairs.

Part of a Carnival parade in Girona during the 1980s, a picture taken by photojournalist Francesc Terradas / Ceded by the Girona city council

Terradas' family ceded 17,635 photos in total. Born in Girona on February 14, 1928, Terradas began taking photographs at an early age.

Meanwhile, the family of Josep Antoni Arrayás has donated images featuring football games, commercial erotic photography, and advertisements. Arrayás also used a Super 8 film camera, and one of his recordings captures the greeting of former Catalan president Josep Tarradellas at Girona's Temps de Flors in 1978.

A girl uses a bin in a picture taken by photographer Josep Antoni Arrayás in the 1970s / Ceded by the Girona city council

Arrayás was born in Madrid in 1929 and moved to Girona at the age of 18 for compulsory military service.

These photographs will be digitized over the next two years and made available to the public.