It was the Galerie VU which announced, on this side of the Pyrenees, the disappearance of Bárbara Allende Gil de Biedma, better known by her artist name, Ouka Leele, an artist name as eccentric as the Movida of which she was “the” photographer.
Born in 1957, at the same time photographer, painter, poet, director, Ouka Leele was
“an emblematic figure of the Spanish photographic scene, a direct actress of the Madrid Movida by her explosive creativity, her poetry, her generosity and her fantasy”
.
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“I was born into a family where the brush, the camera and the editing of small black and white films was something normal. My parents were the first to push me down this path, when I was very young
,” she said of her
Unlikely Pictures
series , 2018.
“
I met her quite oddly, in 1984 or 1985, through a book called
12 Spanish Photographers
.
In this small Spanish book, there were portraits, characters reproduced in black and white.
One of these pictures...
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