Anna Turbau. (b. Barcelona, 1949) is a photojournalist linked to counterculture and photographic realism, with interesting documentary projects. She studied graphic design at the Escuela Massana (Centre d'Art i Disseny) and at the Escola Elisava (Escola Universitària de Disseny i Enginyeria de Barcelona). As she has commented on several occasions, after receiving an assignment from Interviú magazine to cover the squatting of an apartment in Barcelona, she discovered her passion for photography and photojournalism.
Her photographic style, characterized by the habitual use of black and white with a symbolic will and angle to achieve very expressionist optical effects, has been linked to that of other photojournalists such as Pilar Aymerich or Manel Armengol. Among her references, Anna Turbau has highlighted photographers such as Cristina García Rodero, Koldo Chamorro, Robert Doisneau and Robert Frank.
Her work highlights the photographic work carried out in Galicia between 1975 and 1979. Invited by the Colexio of Architects of Galicia, her first intention was to document the housing project designed by César Portela and Pascuala Campos in the town of O Vao (Pontevedra ), built to house gipsy families.
Her visit would last four years, with her working as a correspondent for magazines such as Interviú and Primera Plana, becoming a notary for the movements of political, social and economic change of the Transition. Her archive accumulates nearly ten thousand negatives including the demonstrations in favour of the autonomy statute of Galicia, the mobilizations against the construction of the AP-9, the drama of the Marbel shipwreck and the first edition of the festival of Ortigueira, among others.
Some of her photographs are found in important collections such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Pressured by the impact of her work, she was forced to return to Barcelona. A difficult return that took her through different jobs such as Actual magazine, the TV3 network where she worked as a production assistant for 12 years or a photojournalism teacher at the Grisart International School of Photography in Barcelona. She currently lives between Calatañazor (Soria) and Barcelona, and in 2017, Anna Turbau's anthological book about her time in Galicia was published. Galicia, 1975-1979, published by the Consello da Cultura Galega, which accompanied the exhibition of the same name.
Her photographic style, characterized by the habitual use of black and white with a symbolic will and angle to achieve very expressionist optical effects, has been linked to that of other photojournalists such as Pilar Aymerich or Manel Armengol. Among her references, Anna Turbau has highlighted photographers such as Cristina García Rodero, Koldo Chamorro, Robert Doisneau and Robert Frank.
Her work highlights the photographic work carried out in Galicia between 1975 and 1979. Invited by the Colexio of Architects of Galicia, her first intention was to document the housing project designed by César Portela and Pascuala Campos in the town of O Vao (Pontevedra ), built to house gipsy families.
Her visit would last four years, with her working as a correspondent for magazines such as Interviú and Primera Plana, becoming a notary for the movements of political, social and economic change of the Transition. Her archive accumulates nearly ten thousand negatives including the demonstrations in favour of the autonomy statute of Galicia, the mobilizations against the construction of the AP-9, the drama of the Marbel shipwreck and the first edition of the festival of Ortigueira, among others.
Some of her photographs are found in important collections such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Pressured by the impact of her work, she was forced to return to Barcelona. A difficult return that took her through different jobs such as Actual magazine, the TV3 network where she worked as a production assistant for 12 years or a photojournalism teacher at the Grisart International School of Photography in Barcelona. She currently lives between Calatañazor (Soria) and Barcelona, and in 2017, Anna Turbau's anthological book about her time in Galicia was published. Galicia, 1975-1979, published by the Consello da Cultura Galega, which accompanied the exhibition of the same name.
![Aínda sen título. White Letter [#3] to Narelle Jubelin. (Elena Asins · Narelle Jubelin · Anna Turbau). Photograph by Roi Alonso, courtesy of Galería Nordés](/sites/default/files/styles/card_article_image_big/public/lead-images/metalocus_narelle-jubellin_carta-aberta_22_2p.webp?itok=yiVp4PrZ "Aínda sen título. White Letter [#3] to Narelle Jubelin. (Elena Asins · Narelle Jubelin · Anna Turbau). Photograph by Roi Alonso, courtesy of Galería Nordés")
