Ramón Pacheco Salazar

Ramón Pacheco Salazar (Villa Clara, Cuba, 1954) is a Cuban photographer, photojournalist, and visual artist, member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC). Since 1979, he has worked as a photojournalist for the newspaper Girón, where he also served as Head of Photography for the cultural supplement Yumurí between 1981 and 1983. In 1984, he participated as a war correspondent in Angola, an experience that deeply shaped his artistic vision and documentary perspective. In 2002, he published his book Ambos Mundos: Photographic Tales of Cuba, edited by the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Germany. Over the years, his work has earned multiple distinctions, including an Honorable Mention and Bronze Medal from the Photographic Federation of America at the National Human Body Photography Salonin 1996. Pacheco has been the recipient of several prestigious international fellowships granted by institutions such as the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (Germany, 1998), the Christoph Merian Stiftung (Basel, Switzerland, 2004), FotoFest International, the Foundation for Culture and Society, and the Annenberg Foundation (USA, 2018). In 2022, he participated as a guest speaker at the III International Congress on Art History, Culture, and Society at the University of La Laguna in Spain. His photographic work has been showcased in numerous solo exhibitions, including Saludos de Cuba (Ken Damy Museum, Brescia, Italy, 1996); Convivencia y Coincidencia and Ambos Mundos (Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany, 1998 and 2002); Corresponsal de Guerra. Ramón Pacheco(Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Havana, 2003); Convivencia-Coincidencia (Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, 2003); and the photographic installations La Otra Mirada and La Cola (Stiftung Atelierhaus, Basel, Switzerland, 2004).