Bàrbara Allende Gil de Biedma has been known as Ouka Leele since the eighties. She was a distinguished, self-taught photographer who garnered prestigious recognition for her prominent role in La Movida Madrileña, a countercultural movement during the transition from dictatorship to democracy in Spain in the eighties. For some she represents the standard of postmodernity. Her pop style and the lighting of her black and white photographs with intensely chromatic watercolours are the most characteristics traits of her work. She represents what she lives and knows, the experiences, research, learning and understanding of art as an absolute consecration. She was awarded the Premio de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid in 2003, and the Premio Nacional de Fotografía, from the Ministerio de Cultura in 2005.
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