Espe Pons photographs the places where anti-fascist women volunteers in the Spanish Civil War worked—Brunete, Albacete, Huete and Mataró—showing empty landscapes and ruins that evoke their absence.

The project gives visibility back to the doctors, nurses, photographers, journalists, militiamen and thinkers who came as volunteers from abroad: Elzbieta Bekier, Anni Brunner, Hedwig Buss-Diener, Maria Gothelf Melchior, Nan Green, Liesel Hidden-Mottek, Kate Kirstein, May Modotti, Margarida Nelken Mansberger, Betty Rosenfeld, Jeanne Roussant, Rachel Schwartzman, Esther Silverstein Blanc, Thora Silverthorne, Gerda Taro, Clara Thalmann, Lillian Urmston and Simone Weil.

The author locates their families and constructs contemporary portraits, as well as documenting personal objects that preserve their memory. The book includes 21 biographies written by relatives and historians about the women featured. In addition, six specialists contribute texts that provide the historical and cultural context of the Spanish Civil War and are complemented by archival photographs by authors such as Gerda Taro, Edward Weston, Kati Horna and Agustí Centelles.

This photobook is an independent publication that has the support of several cultural and historical memory institutions.

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