ESPAÑA OCULTA - Cristina García Rodero Book name_JULIOL the Assumption of the Virgin

the Assumption of the Virgin

Tired of playing in punk and rock’n’roll bands

The hand-crocheted raffia base is made in Madagascar and assembled in Spain with leather finishes

By analysing some of his most emblematic works

is one of its author’s most widely publicised international icons

ESPAÑA OCULTA - Cristina García Rodero Book name_JULIOL the Assumption of the VirginCristina Garca Rodero began photographing with passion as a teenager (which she has not abandoned) the festivals, rites and liturgies that, like many, she believed were going to disappear from rural Spain with the end of Franco, which she already sensed. They were wrong. If there is one day every year when the cities are empty and the towns are packed, it is August 15, the Assumption of the Virgin. From the efforts and sacrifices of her 15 year old