About the Artist

"This famous Cuban photographer joined the Partido Socialista Popular in the 1950's,working as a photographer for the Party's newspaper. Known for capturing the everyday lives of peasants and workers on film, Corrales ventured into remote parts of his country. Amost all of his photographic work was destroyed during a police raid in the late 1950's by the Batista dictatorship. After the popular Revolution of 1959 against the Batista dictatorship, Raul Corrales joined the Communist Party of Cuba. For many years he served as one of Fidel Castro's offical photographers. Corrales also worked for almost three decades in the Office of Historical Affiars, helping to preserve and organize the revolution's documentary and photographic legacy." taken from Wikipedia's biography for Raul Corrales