Gabriel Casas is one of Spain’s most important photographers. Born in Barcelona in 1892, he was active between the wars and during the Spanish civil war, of which he was an important documenter. Like many other artists of the inter-war period, Casas turned to photography as a powerful method of communication and of capturing modern industrial society at a time when the face of Catalunya, and Barcelona in particular, was changing rapidly due to industrialisation. Working as a ...