The Random Series — berliner trato, romananzo & madrileño trip — is a project carried out by Miguel Ángel Tornero (b. 1978, Baeza, Spain) over a period of four years in Berlin, Rome and Madrid. Now enriched with additional material, it is presented in a book that defies conventional classifications.

During his stay in each city Tornero photographed his daily activities intensely and instinctively, accumulating a series of images that would provide the raw material for the final digital collages included in the volume. Curiosity and instinct prevailed in his approach.

In the process of creating these unsettling collages Tornero used a glitch in a software that was not programmed to sew together apparently unrelated pictures. The final result is largely left to chance.

In the book this approach is expanded and intensified. Carlos Fernández-Pello's text is itself a collage which — in a process parallel to that of the creation of the images — has been manipulated, translated and mercilessly retranslated into different languages by machine translation. The page layout has also been done randomly.