Cristina García 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 self, España Oculta was born in 1989, her book of her life, which placed her at the forefront of the international showcase of photography and changed the destiny of the Lunwerg publishing house.

With all the awards and recognitions received, no one like García Rodero has captured so many moments that reflect the popular and traditional soul of this country, and for so long. A perennial black and white that testifies to the most primitive thing in the human being, his faith and his desire to celebrate life and ward off death.