Benjamina Miyar

[3] According to Pantín Fernández,"In a small room on the ground floor of Corao's house, she set up her studio, where she developed hundreds of photographs of the life and inhabitants of the region for decades, making photography her livelihood.

She was imprisoned four times and beaten repeatedly for “aiding bandits, possession of weapons and photographs.”[2] One of the charges against her was terrorism for her relationship with the anti-fascist guerrillas.

[3] Until 1945 she remained a fugitive hiding in the mountains near Corao, and her house was searched on several occasions by dictator Francisco Franco's Civil Guard.

After the guerrillas were defeated in the 1950s, Miyar was allowed to return to her watchmaking workshop and photography studio to earn a living although she remained very poor.

[2] After her cousin Ismael, a political resister, returned home after serving six years in Franco's prison, she handed over the watchmaking workshop to him, devoting herself solely to photography, which she never abandoned.

[3] She battled cancer for years, first moving to Palencia, then to Madrid for treatment, and returning to Corao shortly before her death on 7 August 1961.