Ramón Pacheco Salazar

Ramón Pacheco Salazar (Villa Clara, Cuba, 1954) es un Cuban photographer, photojournalist, and visual artist, member of the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC) y el Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC). Desde 1979, he has worked as a photojournalist for the newspaper Girón, where he also served as Head of Photography for the cultural supplement Yumurí entre 1981 y 1983. En 1984, he participated as a war correspondent in Angola, an experience that deeply shaped his artistic vision and documentary perspective. En 2002, he published his book Ambos Mundos: Photographic Tales of Cuba, edited by the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen, Alemania. A lo largo de los años, his work has earned multiple distinctions, including an Honorable Mention and Bronze Medal desde Photographic Federation of America en el National Human Body Photography Salonen 1996. Pacheco has been the recipient of several prestigious international fellowships granted by institutions such as the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (Alemania, 1998), el Christoph Merian Stiftung (Basilea, Suiza, 2004), FotoFest International, el Foundation for Culture and Society, y el Annenberg Foundation (Estados Unidos, 2018). En 2022, he participated as a guest speaker en el III International Congress on Art History, Cultura, and Society en el University of La Laguna en España. His photographic work has been showcased in numerous solo exhibitions, incluido Saludos de Cuba (Ken Damy Museum, Brescia, Italia, 1996); Convivencia y Coincidencia y Ambos Mundos (Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aquisgrán, Alemania, 1998 y 2002); Corresponsal de Guerra. Ramón Pacheco(Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, la Habana, 2003); Convivencia-Coincidencia (Fototeca de Cuba, la Habana, 2003); and the photographic installations La Otra Mirada y La Cola (Stiftung Atelierhaus, Basilea, Suiza, 2004).