The Story of Primavera Sound Festival 2017 in Fifty Photographs
12 July 2017, 10:36
Photography by
Hollie Fernando
Award-winning photographer Hollie Fernando‘s photo essay of Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona goes beyond the bands to meet the guys and girls who escape to the Spanish sun for one of the greatest music events in Europe.
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