Summer is not as innocent as it looks.
Beneath the bright colours, the sticky skin and the endless light, something else unfolds.

A choreography of bodies exposed to the sun.
Rituals repeated year after year.
Moments of pleasure, excess, boredom and quiet absurdity.

In SUNBURNED STORIES, summer becomes a space of observation. A place where intimacy turns public, where gestures are exaggerated, and where the ordinary reveals its strange, almost surreal nature. Sunburned skin, plastic textures, restless children, distracted gazes, fleeting encounters, fragments of a season that feels both universal and deeply personal.

This exhibition marks the fourth collaboration between Бартcелона POP UP and Radisson Hotel, a series dedicated to paying tribute to the photobook as a central form of photographic expression. Each edition takes inspiration from a seminal publication, revisiting its themes and visual language through the eyes of contemporary photographers. On this occasion, the exhibition draws from Life’s a Beach, the iconic photobook that redefined how we look at leisure, tourism and the rituals of summer.

Conceived as a tribute to a way of looking that embraces humour, contradiction and honesty, this exhibition brings together a group of photographers who engage with the language of everyday life. Their images do not seek perfection, but presence. Not spectacle, but recognition.

There is warmth here, but also tension.
There is laughter, but also discomfort.
There is beauty, but never without friction.

Because summer, after all, is not just a place we go to, 
it is something we perform.

Artists

Ana Batricevic (Serbia) @ana_batricevic
Daniel Quirarte (Mexico)
Joal Caldera (USA) @dudewiththe_camera
Jovana Kuzmanovic (Serbia) @jqzmanovic
Jean Guy Lathuilière (France)
Marie Lourier (Russia) @marie_lourier
Meri Mustapic (Croatia) @sea_mousse_
Tim Rusell (British) @timrussellphotography