The photographer Agustí Centelles (1909-1985) has gone down in history as one of the great photojournalists of the Civil War. He represents a legacy recovered during the Transition in the midst of a mythical construction process around his figure. But his professional career hides a huge and at the same time exceptional visual production. Exceptional when we approach the set of unusual images from a historical and photographic point of view that he took while detained in the Bram concentration camp between March and September 1939. There he took hundreds of photographs that constitute a unique contribution of the visualization of the republican exile. But against all logic, the photographer did not include them when he recorded the contents of his archive during the Transition, nor did he explicitly claim them in the last years of his life. What could be the reason for not making them public?

Teresa Ferré Panisello is a journalist and professor of the History of Communication and Journalism at the UAB and an independent researcher at the Observatory of Everyday Life (OVQ). His academic research focuses on photography and propaganda during the interwar period, especially the figure of Agustí Centelles, on whom he has done his doctoral dissertation, curated several exhibitions and published some books including the diary of the photographer written in the Bram concentration camp. He is doing independent research for the OVQ in the projects “La imatge velada”, which aims to recover the legacy of Catalan photojournalism from 1900 to 1939, and “Gràfica anarquista”.