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Photography by Daniel Riera

Plaça de Jean Genet is a small, triangle-shaped square in Barcelona. It's located in the southern side of El Raval, by the port and Avinguda de les Drassanes and the Catalan Gothic buildings of the Royal Shipyard, in the district of Ciutat Vella. It is named after French author Jean Genet who resided in the city for a time and whose novel The Thief's Journal takes place in the poverty-stricken alleys of Raval. Essayist Lluís Permanyer proposed the name in 1997.

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El Raval, Barcelona.

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Geoff Harrison - Original street photography of silhouette wall art taken of passers-by in the Raval, Barcelona

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Here’s a little study based on the typical style of building in the Raval area. The area is extremely lively, diverse, loud and almost always has something going on. The structures are old, ramshackle, cramped, covered in graffiti and clothes. Awnings and sun coverings hang over windows and doors. There’s a myriad of pokey little bars and shops at the street level of most buildings. Raval bursts with colour and detail and is always interesting to wander about in :v