Joaquim Gomis Transatlantic
By Charlotte Stace
Joaquim Gomis Transatlantic spotlights Joaquim Gomis at his most restless and modern: a young, self-taught photographer crossing the United States in the 1920s with little more than a camera and sharp visual instinct. These images reveal how quickly a new world was being built, and how quickly Gomis learned to see it.
The photographs capture oil fields, the cotton industry, and the rise of early skyscrapers, alongside striking details from the ocean liner deck that carried him across the Atlantic. Together, they feel both documentary and experimental - compositions that anticipate the “New Vision” language of modern photography.
Looking at them now, the series also reframes Gomis as more than a cultural figure behind Fundació Joan Miró (where he later became its first president): it’s a glimpse of a photographer already thinking in modern angles, textures and scale, making industry, travel, and transformation look unexpectedly cinematic.