Cuban photographer member of the Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC)

Youth:
Corrales was born into a poor family in CIEGO de Avilla, in the Cuban countryside, and
moved to Havana in his childhood, he worked as a newspaper seller, shoe shiner ... but his photography hobby became more and more important.

Politics :
In the 1950s, Corrales joined the “Partido Socialista Populair” and worked as
photographer for the Party newspaper.

He specialized in trips to remote areas of Cuba to photograph the
daily life of peasants and working poor.

During a police raid in the late 1950s, almost all Corrales' photographic work was destroyed.

After the 1959 revolution against the Batista government, Raul Corrales joined the Communist Party of Cuba, he was one of Fidel Castro's official photographers for many
many years.

He worked for nearly three decades in the Office of Historical Affairs, helping to
preserve and organize the documentary and photographic heritage of the dictatorships of
Castro.

Individual exhibitions:
There have been many exhibitions of his work
The Habana gallery in 1980
At the National Museum of Bellas Artes, Havana in 1985
Visa for image in 1993
At the international reportage festival in Perpignan, in 1988
Retrospective photography exhibition in Cuba, Havana
Raul Corrales has also been exhibited at the Couturier Los Angeles California Gallery, as well as at
the Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore Maryland.
As at Galerie Kraag in Italy
Presence in many museums: Italy, USA, Canada, Cuba, etc ...