With its biggest popular celebration going on, Valencia should be in the news for its positive aspects. But, nope. The main story in the city for the past week has been the censorship of a few photos from an exhibit looking back on 2009.
The MuVIM’s exhibition, Fragments of a Year, brings together iconic photographs of Valencia from 2009. Politics, sports, entertainment, culture and fiestas, anything that’s made news in the Valencian Community is fair game. Or so we thought!
In blunders politics. Apparently unsatisfied with the stranglehold on power they already enjoy in Valencia, a couple functionaries in the PP have decided it’s their right to hide anything which might portray their comrades in a negative light. In a clumsy move, a public museum was forced to remove images that are politically uncomfortable to the ruling party.
As a result, the director of the MuVIM has resigned. Voices across the political spectrum, including Valencia’s mayor Rita Barberá and the national direction of the PP, are united in condemnation of the censorship. And, of course, more attention than ever is being paid to these pictures. Instead of just being a small part of a retrospective, they’ve become the main attraction. As is always the case, the practitioners of censorship are revealed as stupid and short-sighted.
And we’ll do our part to assist. Without further ado, ladies & gentlemen, the 10 censored images. The stars of the show.










This story will never stop to amaze me… I mean, can’t the PP hire efficient PR people (or PR people at all)? It’s true that censoring such images has actually created a controversy out of an exhibition that would otherwise have been pretty much unnoticed.
The photographer caught a gem of a gesture in the last photo. Rita rocks 😉
I think that the first picture is from the celebration when Valencia was chosen to host the 32nd America’s Cup…
@Fernando — thanks for alerting us to that! I did some more research, and Público says they were celebrating after an electoral victory, so I updated the description to that. http://blogs.publico.es/elojopublico/las-fotos-que-el-pp-valenciano-quiere-esconder/839
The pp ha estado en poder demasiado tiempo. Podemos cambiar, ojalá