Joan Andreu Puig Farran: The Turbulent Decade (1929-1939) - KBR Fundació MapfreBarcelona Art Season, Exhibitions
06/11/2025 - 08/31/2025

The KBR Fundación Mapfre presents the exhibition Joan Andreu Puig Farran: The Turbulent Decade (1929-1939); a retrospective of the work of this photographer who captured some of the most turbulent moments in Spain’s recent history. Throughout his career, Puig Farran worked for major newspapers such as La Humanitat, Esplai, El Matí, L’Opinió, and La Vanguardia, capturing key moments of the end of the Republic, the early years of the Civil War, and the social and political unrest of that period.

After his exile in France in 1939, Puig Farran was unable to resume his career as a photojournalist, but he continued working in industrial and tourism photography, creating the CYP postcard brand together with his friend Antoni Campañà. Despite his remarkable work, he never had the opportunity to exhibit his photographs, making this exhibition an invaluable recovery of his legacy.

The exhibition brings together original period prints from the La Vanguardia archive, along with reproductions made from his glass plates preserved by his heirs, offering a comprehensive view of the social and political unrest of those years.