Spanish photographer Ouka Leele, star of the Movida Madrileña, dies aged 64

Artist and poet played leading role in cultural explosion that followed end of Franco dictatorship

The Spanish photographer, artist and poet Ouka Leele, one of the greatest and brightest talents of the Movida Madrilena cultural explosion that followed the end of the Francisco Franco dictatorship, has died at the age of 64.

Born Barbara Allende Gil de Biedma in Madrid in 1957, Leele began drawing, painting and devouring history of art books at an early age. After studying photography, she alighted on what would become her trademark style - an often riotous fusion of monochrome photographic images overpainted with gaudy watercolours.