La Loi du Sol

Vall Fosca

2015

This winter sports resort in the Vall Fosca (western Catalan Pyrenees) was a large development project that came to a halt in 2008, when the company went bankrupt. By then, part of the infrastructure was already in place, with brand-new cable cars and slopes laid out and equipped for artificial snow. From the outset, the project met strong opposition, which denounced the speculative nature of an operation geared towards “macro-tourism” at the expense of local farming livelihoods, and pointed to its disastrous ecological record.