Mey Rahola was one of the first women to make a name for herself in the field of artistic photography in Spain. In a very short time, between 1934 and 1936, her work acquired a public dimension through exhibitions, prizes, and publications. The war and exile truncated this promising stage of her creative activity. In France, however, her expertise as a photographer allowed her to professionalize and save the family from poverty and hunger. At the end of the Second World War, when her husband's professional situation improved, she quit her professional career. She continued to take photos but without the same level of public exposure as she had experienced before the war. She died in Vaucresson, near Paris, in August 1959. Her preserved photographic collection, scattered for many years and now assembled, includes 650 photographs, 350 negatives and 5 albums.