Pablo Corral Vega
Knight Center Resident Professional
Ecuadorian photojournalist Pablo Corral Vega will serve as a Resident Professional at the Knight Center for International Media during the Spring semester of 2008. During his residency, Mr. Vega will print a 60 image version of his larger exhibit entitled 25 and consisting of as many years of photojournalism across the world. He will work with students and faculty at the School of Communication on printing the exhibit and organizing international visual journalism panels that will discuss the potential of photojournalism to have cross-border impact.
The new exhibit will be presented at the University of Miami April 6 – 16 2008 and will travel to other parts of the world including Bangladesh, Chile and Spain. A by-product of his work will be a bilingual (English and Spanish) handbook for digital photographers who want learn how to prepare digital files for the print medium. This handbook will be made available to photojournalists in various countries in Latin America and elsewhere with the aim of helping them understand the technical and aesthetic guidelines that need to be followed by photojournalists who submit their work for publication in prominent magazines and newspapers.
Corral Vega has traveled throughout South America and is praised for his journalistic and cultural knowledge of Latin American subjects. Through his photography he has captured the spirit of the Latin American people and their culture and has gracefully documented the landscape of their diverse land. He is the author of several photographic books, including Bare Earth: A Pictorial Book on Ecuador, Andes of Ecuador: Silent Landscapes, Ecuador: From Magic to Horror, and 25. Inspired by Corral Vega’s photographs, award-winning Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa wrote 20 short stories for their National Geographic book, Andes.
Corral Vega’s work has been published his work in National Geographic magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Audubon, the French, German, Spanish and Russian editions of GEO, and other international publications.
Corral Vega holds a degree in law and political science from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador and lives in Quito, Ecuador.
