Born in Valencia, he entered photography through the Photographic Association of Catalonia, where he became a prominent member. He stood out as a photojournalist during the Spanish Civil War, working for publications such as El Día Gráfico, La Humanidad, Diario de Barcelona, La Publicidad, and La Vanguardia, using his Leica camera. After the Republican defeat, he went into exile in France and was interned in several concentration camps, where, together with S. Pujol, he set up a clandestine photographic laboratory to document living conditions.
Once liberated, in 1942 he collaborated with the French Resistance, but returned to Barcelona in 1944. He was arrested and sanctioned by the Francoist authorities, which forced him to devote himself to commercial and advertising photography until the end of the dictatorship.
