Ask most people to name Catalonia’s greatest cultural figures, and Antoni Gaudí and Joan Miró are likely to be among the first names mentioned. Far fewer will say Joaquim Gomis. Yet without his camera, the world’s understanding of Gaudí’s architecture may have looked completely different.
At a time when the radical architect's work was still being by dismissed by parts of Barcelona's own artistic establishment as eccentric rather than visionary, Gomis understood its significance.