Pablo Corral's Page

Current position and base (organization, company, etc.)

Founder and Director of www.nuestramirada.org and revista.nuestramirada.org, two sites for Latin American photography.

Biography

Pablo Corral Vega (1966) is an Ecuadorian photojournalist whose work has been published in National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, the Smithsonian Magazine, the New York Times Sunday magazine, Audubon, the French, German, Spanish, and Russian editions of Geo, and other international reviews. He lives in Quito, Ecuador.

His work has been exhibited in Perpignan, Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca, Tokyo, Seville, Washington, D.C., and Houston, and he has published five books of photography: Tierra Desnuda, Paisajes del Silencio, Ecuador: De la Magia al Espanto, Ecuador, and Andes. For Andes, published by the National Geographic Society, famed Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa wrote twenty short stories inspired by the photos.

About Corral’s work, Vargas Llosa had this to say: “In Pablo Corral’s photographs there is always a hope, an affirmation of life, a will to survive even in face of the worst adversities, and this hope, this affirmation, this drive manifest themselves in the humblest and the most mistreated, whether by their fellow human beings or by catastrophes. It may be, in fact, that these images that portray the ability to resist, the ability not to be crushed by the most elemental and terrible conditions of life, are the most persuasive of the collection. They are images of people bowed under the weight of a centuries-long oppression, people who have been exploited, are being exploited, and then forgotten, condemned to live in the most extreme poverty, the most extreme conditions, at the constant risk and in the constant awareness of death. And yet none of that has taken away from these people their joie de vivre, the gaiety of their fiestas, the fun of getting into costumes and dancing to the music of their bands, the happiness of walking with their saints and virgins in sumptuous processions. In the villages of the Sierras, Pablo Corral’s camera, filled with sympathy and solidarity with those he is about to photograph, can always pick out that secret little flame that never stops flickering, even in the darkest of circumstances, and whose philosophy can be summed up by this old saying: ‘The last thing that dies in the human being is hope.’”

Specialities & interests

My main interest is to help Latin American photographers grow professionally. I have been teaching workshops for the last 15 years. Now I'm starting an online magazine that will show some of the best work from my region.

Current geographic base:

Latin America & the Caribbean

Category(ies) that best describe(s) me:

freelance photographer, editor, educator

I have a:

website

Web URL

http://nuestramirada.org

Web URL

http://www.pablocorralvega.net

Contact details (email, phone, IM, etc.)

pablocorralvega@gmail.com
skype: francorve