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Raúl Cañibano
Raúl Cañibano Ercilla is based in Havana. He was born in 1961. One of the younger generation of photographers born after the Revolution, his work focuses on people, everyday life, history and socialism. He has exhibited world-wide and won a major prize in Cuba for a project on the life of rural workers.
In 1993, he had his first solo exhibition, Lonely Hunter at the Fototeca de Cuba. Since then his work has been shown in a number of exhibitions in Cuba as well as in Mexico, Canada, Brazil, the USA, Spain, Greece, Italy, Belgium and Japan. He has been featured in various publications, both at home and abroad. In 1999 he won the Grand Prix in the Cuban National Photography Exhibit for his project, ´Tierra Guajira´ (Country Land), concentrating on the life of rural workers.
Ercilla was one of eleven photographers selected for the Cuba, Si! Cuba, Seen! retrospective of 50 years of Cuban photography at the Royal National Theatre in London in 2000. His work is part of the Collection at the International Center of Photography in New York.
Published on January 29, 2022
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