About

Pocallum is a photography project created in 2010 by Joan Linux Martínez. We do cultural photography: concerts, performing arts, music of all kinds — with a special passion for jazz and blues.

We didn’t come from a trend or the digital democratisation of photography. We came from a need to document what happens on stages, in rehearsals, in dressing rooms. To capture the atmosphere of a jazz concert at 2am, or the tension of an actor just before going on stage.

There are photographers who take photos of concerts. And there are photographers who understand music. We’re the second kind.

We’ve been making photos that people remember since 2002. We work in analogue and digital, always with editorial judgement and without losing it to any passing trend. Our studio is at Nau Bostik, in the north of Barcelona.

To learn more about Joan Linux and his work, visit about.pocallum.cat.

The ecosystem

112books.eu — Independent photobook publisher founded in 2020.

Llumàtics — Analogue photography and alternative process education.

LinuxBCN — Technology consultancy and free software.

Roots

More than clients or collaborators, these are projects we share roots with — neighbourhood structures, self-managed spaces and organisations working at the intersection of culture, diversity and territory.

9Barris Imatge — Photography collective of the Nou Barris district. Co-coordinator since 2002.

Nau Bostik — Art and culture space in the Segrera neighbourhood. Residents since 2020. The lab, the studio and most of the thinking happen here.

Prollema — Organisation working with young migrants at risk of social exclusion. Photography collaboration since 2024.

FITI — International Integrative Theatre Festival — Documentation of the festival and inclusive theatre processes with people with functional diversity.

Casal de Barri de la Prosperitat — Member of the community centre’s management board from 2002 to 2017.