20 years ago in 1988, the Economic Culture Fund, Mexico published the book "Paths of Ecuador " of Hugo Cifuentes (Otavalo, 1923 - Quito, 2000). Key point that marked a shift in the way of documentary photography in Ecuador.
Cifuentes Hugo's work was a different approach to rural areas of Ecuador with a look full of humor and poetic posture against the real. His photo essay "Huañurca", performed with his son, Francisco, was awarded "Casa de las Americas" in 1983.
Here a small sample of his work accompanied by extracts from the text "Memory" Cifuentes Angela Mary, daughter of the photographer and historian.
.................... Cifuentes Hugo's work was a different approach to rural areas of Ecuador with a look full of humor and poetic posture against the real. His photo essay "Huañurca", performed with his son, Francisco, was awarded "Casa de las Americas" in 1983.
Here a small sample of his work accompanied by extracts from the text "Memory" Cifuentes Angela Mary, daughter of the photographer and historian.
kiss of life - 1982 "Without ethics there is no aesthetics, thought Dad, for delivery to the art that had an ethical foundation to always seek new forms and content in the paint, drawing, collage and photography. "
the mantle of the Virgin - 1986 
hunch - 1986 "Dad thought the image as creative as she raises to see beyond the visible, how absurd or banal everyday moment can turn into something unusual, unprecedented. "
accident dreams - 1985 
flat tire - 1985 
faun -1986 
the son of oblivion - 1986 "I think, however, Dad was able to photograph the hope that it always was: to concrete changes in the art of the country. With his work and his momentum generated dad definitely a new era in photography Ecuador, making a creative discipline. "
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