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Our aunt Anita
ago, when the identity of the photographer was first discovered.
A Barcelona local, Toni Monne, was rummaging around in his old family house in Sant Cugat when he discovered a box containing thousands of wartime photographs belonging to his grandfather, Antoni. And among them was the iconic image.
Step forward a few years and Monne began working with the National Art Museum of Catalunya (MNAC) to prepare an exhibition of Campaña's work. Then, as if by fate, when the exhibition finally opened a family member of the unknown woman attended while visiting Barcelona from France.
“We got goosebumps,” François Gomez Garbin revealed, on seeing his aunt Anita in the photo. And by chance Monne, who happened to be there at