Retaguardia is a curated, large format photography book showcasing a series of locations in the surroundings of Vinalopó and Alicante that were dramatically impacted by the events related to the Spanish Civil War and the Second Republic. The book's imagery and texts are meant to establish a contrastive connection between past and present:  the convulsive war time, characterised by the smell of gunpowder and fire smoke, but also by people's compassion and solidarity, and the present time where the pillars of democracy are built upon those memories from the past.