Agustí Centelles

Agustí Centelles Ossó (1909 in Valencia – 1 December 1985 in Barcelona) was a Catalan photographer, working on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War.

He went to work as an apprentice in 1924 in the photographic studio of Ramón de Baños [es] where he learned portraiture.

One famous photograph from this period shows George Orwell with the POUM militia at the Lenin barracks.

He did this because he understood that he could not return home with material that, if seized, could implicate people in the photographs to the Francoist authorities.

His political past prevented a return to a career in photojournalism, so he opted for industrial and advertising photography, making orders for products such as Chupa Chups and Anís del Mono.

In 1976 he went back to France with his friend Eduard Pons Prades to retrieve the negatives he had left during his exile.