The Revela’t Festival was founded in 2013 by the Associació Fotogràfica EspaiFoto. Its aim is to create a space dedicated to contemporary analogue photography and to so-called alternative or traditional photographic processes.

This would be the more institutional version, but in reality the festival began in a much more spontaneous, natural and even accidental way.

We were celebrating the anniversary of the EspaiFotogràfic website and, as lovers of analogue photography, we invited Quinn Jacobson to lead a wet plate collodion workshop, which turned into four days of workshops. We did the same with Ilan Wolf and also organised four days of pinhole workshops, school workshops and more.

The great photographer Josep Maria Ribas Prous proposed an exhibition. After him, more followed. In the end, we had eight exhibitions, several workshops and a small trade fair. All of this happened without much prior planning and with no intention of continuing.

Once this first edition had ended, we received countless emails. People told us that the festival had to continue and encouraged us to keep going. We took the plunge and organised a second edition, which was much better than the first, and this year we will celebrate the fourteenth edition.

From its earliest editions, the festival attracted the interest of artists and professionals working with these techniques at a time when digital photography dominated most photographic production.