Spain- Magdalena Festival

This gallery documents the Magdalena festival in Castellón de la Plana, a week-long public celebration marking the city’s historical migration from its original settlement in the surrounding hills. The festival brings the city into the streets through pilgrimage, procession, music, and ritual, combining formal tradition with large-scale public gathering.

As day gives way to night, celebration intensifies. Pyrotechnic performances, mascletàs, and the correfoc transform the city into an immersive environment of sound, fire, and movement, where performers and spectators share the same space. The photographs observe these moments as collective experience — where history, identity, and celebration converge through participation rather than spectacle alone.