Masters of Photography - Manuel Ferrol

Photography © The Estate of Manuel Ferrol
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Ferrol's portrait © Victor Echave

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Please, read Ferrols biography by his own (Official Website):
http://www.manuelferrol.com/index.php...

(This is an excerpt):
I was born in Vilano Cape, in the very distant 1923. I am the oldest of the five brothers that my parents, Juan and Balbina, had. My father was lighthouse tower-guard, so we lived always in the frontier of the sea, and sometimes I think, (I remember the big storms) inside the same sea. My father played the accordion for the neighbours to dance and my mother was left without sheets that served as shroud for the deads of the shipwrecks, we lived together with life and death. I can show off of having travelled across mystic places: Corrubedo, Ons Island , Silleiro Cape, Sálvora, Pontevedra and finally A Coruña.

My childhood, immersed in nature, perhaps contributed to my look through the camera without knowing it. I knew the most tragic experiences in my life when I was only 12, in Sillerio Cape, where daily, thrown in the gutters, the bodies of those gone for a walk in 1936 appeared. They were young men, killed by a shot in the temple. I had also a great impression, when some shipwrecks happened, the dead bodies of those drowned floating on the waters that my mother covered with sheets.

His Work:
http://www.manuelferrol.com/index.php...

Manuel Ferrol had a life full of adventures, but hell go down in history by a wonderful second, in which he captured the most universal emigration image . He is the only galician person who appears in the prestigious History of photography, by Baumont Newhall, and exposed in the Photograph Museum of Columbia, as author of the most dramatic images of galician emigration to America, shooted by him in the farewells that took place in the harbour of A Coruña, in front of transatlantic Juan de Garay. Those images, so heart-rending, were picked up in numerous encyclopaedias, history and politic books (as the famous Galicia Today, by Díaz Pardo and Luís Seoane, published by Ruedo Ibérico in Buenos Aires, in 1966) and different articles in media all over the world. The father and son's picture, broken by pain that Manuel Ferrol shoot in 27th November, 1957, in one of the docks of the harbour of A Coruña, has travelled around the world in the end of the fifties, and its an universal document, possibly with a higher category than a lot of Pulitzers.

Television reporter and studio, cinema and press photographer, he has captured with the lens of his camera, after 45 years of profession, thousand angles from Galicia. Deep expert of its geography, gastronomy and of their people, he has left the essence of the past to the history of the photography.

Manuel Ferrol, in spite of having contributed in great measure to make the graphic history of Galicia, he had not benefit of it, because the reproduction of its photos has been made, in many cases, without paying royalties. Those of them dedicated to the emigration that at the end of the fifties travelled around the world, were not always with his name. Blanco Amor signs them in Buenos Aires as own, and Manuel Ferrol didn't perceive even a cent for the royalties until after 1980 when Manuel Sendón and Suárez Canal published them in the book "Emigration." Manuel Ferrol, rewarded in several contests, obtained the broadcasting technician degree, specialist in emissions and production, granted by the Ministry of Information and Tourism at that time.

Other links:

http://www.cefvigo.com/ingles/galeria...
http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/coruna/2...
http://www.galicia-hoxe.com/index.php...
http://lacomunidad.elpais.com/azdardo...
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[nupitas]

Grande Manuel Ferrol!

Podriais decirme cual es la cancion que empieza en el minuto 1:17???

Gracias por subir este video!!

[PhotographyMasters]

Es 'Historias de Terramar II' de Carlos Núñez. Gracias por tu comentario. Saludos, Cybele

[cvarbar]

Un poco de recuerdo de nuestra historia no tan lejana no nos viene nada mal, debemos recordar que fuimos un pueblo emigrante y tenerlo presente en nuestras relaciones con los inmigrantes que residen en nuestro país

[adolfwolfer314]

La sensibilidad necesaria para ver la vida a través de el objetivo y congelar una imagen para la posteridad, hace de estas personas verdaderos artistas. Únicos !!! Maravillosa colección de imagenes. Gracias.-

[Verabadthings]

¡Qué preciosidad! Si he llorado y todo...

[vonspre]

Gracias Cybele...

Como gallego, y aun a pesar de que nadie en mi familia, por suerte, tuvo que emigrar,estas fotografías siempre me han emocionado hasta lo indecible...La música ha sido exquisitamente seleccionada, como en todos tus vídeos...

[QuarterCrawl]

Just down right brilliant!

[xensboy]

Este sensacional vídeo é unha fonte de luz, un tesouro que retrata a alma da nosa terra galega. Fíxome chorar.

Moita honra ao mestre Ferrol.