Since his childhood in Castellón, Lluís Bort has nurtured a passion for photography, assisting in the family’s black-and-white darkroom, beneath the glow of the red safelight. In his youth, he joined the collective L’art de la llum in Onda, taking part in exhibitions and competitions, and receiving several awards. Through his architectural studies, he discovered the spatial and structural dimension of the image, developing both disciplines in parallel.
After his early collaborations with studios such as El Fabricante de Espheras, photographing significant projects like the Betxí Palace, emblematic squares, and collective public spaces, Lluís relocated to Palma de Mallorca more than six years ago. Since then, he has shaped his own distinct perspective in commissions ranging from architecture and urbanism to heritage and landscape, capturing the essence of contemporary works by studios such as Grupo Aranea, Tabuenca & Leache, José María Sánchez García, among others.
In parallel, he pursues personal projects with a strong heritage focus, such as Visió d’un foraster, dedicated to the windmills of Mallorca, and exhibited in Valldemossa and Times Square, New York, and Arquitecturas vacías, a series portraying forgotten buildings across Mallorca, which has been shown at the COAIB and other cultural venues.
Lluís leads a personal line of work aimed at raising public awareness of the cultural and territorial value of architectural heritage.
At the same time, he teaches courses on architectural and landscape photography at the College of Architects and the College of Quantity Surveyors of Mallorca, sharing his visual approach with new generations.
His photographic work transcends aesthetic considerations, seeking to reveal the hidden history embedded in the built environment. In Arquitecturas vacías, he controls the light and soft gradients of the sky to present abandoned buildings as “architectural gems,” advocating for their restoration and the potential of a “second life.” In Visió d’un foraster, his portraits of stone giants—the windmills of Mallorca—are rendered with both respect and poetry, giving voice to a collective memory bound to self-sufficiency and local identity.
Lluís Bort’s photographic narrative blends technical precision, an inheritance from his training as an architect, with a deep and moving sensitivity. His images invite us to pause, to listen to the silence of forgotten structures, and to remember that every stone, every ceiling, holds a fragment of life and community.