Ramón Pacheco Salazar

Ramón Pacheco Salazar (Villa Clara, Kuba, 1954) ist a Cuban photographer, photojournalist, and visual artist, member of the Nationaler Verband der Schriftsteller und Künstler Kubas (UNEAC) und die Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC). Seit 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 Und 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, Deutschland. Im Laufe der Jahre, his work has earned multiple distinctions, including an Honorable Mention and Bronze Medal von der Photographic Federation of America am 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 (Deutschland, 1998), the Christoph Merian Stiftung (Basel, Schweiz, 2004), FotoFest International, the Foundation for Culture and Society, und die Annenberg Foundation (USA, 2018). In 2022, he participated as a guest speaker am III International Congress on Art History, Kultur, and Society am University of La Laguna in Spanien. His photographic work has been showcased in numerous solo exhibitions, einschließlich Saludos de Cuba (Ken Damy Museum, Brescia, Italien, 1996); Convivencia y Coincidencia Und Ambos Mundos (Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Deutschland, 1998 Und 2002); Corresponsal de Guerra. Ramón Pacheco(Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Havanna, 2003); Convivencia-Coincidencia (Kuba-Fotobibliothek, Havanna, 2003); and the photographic installations La Otra Mirada Und La Cola (Stiftung Atelierhaus, Basel, Schweiz, 2004).