Nosaltres no tenim por, nosaltres som Colita

Madrid, Spain

Documentary photography, social reportage, street photography, and political memory.

Colita, Manifestación, 3, 1977. ©Colita. Archivo Colita.

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Colita, Manifestación, 3, 1977. ©Colita. Archivo Colita.

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ArtLovers Tip

Don’t experience this exhibition only as a historical archive. Stand in front of the images and imagine the sound of La Rambla that day — the chants, the fear, the running, the courage. The power of Colita’s work is that it makes history feel present again.

Exhibition Highlights - What you’ll see

Nosaltres no tenim por, nosaltres som brings together, for the first time, the complete photographic report that Colita made during the demonstration of June 26, 1977 in Barcelona — considered the first major LGTBI+ protest held in Spain.

You’re watching:

  • The street becoming a space of visibility and resistance
  • Chants, banners, bodies, urgency, courage
  • A young democracy still emerging after decades of dictatorship
  • Images charged with police presence, running crowds, clashes, and hope
  • A selection of 40 photographs chosen by the photographer herself, following the demonstration along La Rambla.

The exhibition feels direct and alive: not nostalgia, but evidence of a moment when public space became a claim to existence.

Worth the trip

Yes — especially if you believe photography can protect memory.

Because these images are not only about Pride history. They are about democracy, visibility, fear, courage, and the right to occupy the street without asking permission.

More than four decades later, Colita’s photographs still remind us that public space can become an engine of social transformation — and that many freedoms now celebrated were first demanded by bodies exposed to danger.

How to experience it

Read the images as a sequence, not as isolated photographs

Notice the rhythm of the street: movement, urgency, tension

Look at faces, banners, gestures, and police presence

Think about what it meant to be visible in 1977 Spain

Let the title guide you: “We are not afraid, we are”

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