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The exhibition hall on the ground floor of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center will take place on Thursday, March 22, the name of Carlos Gallego Rodríguez, photographer and press reporter who died in 2005. The posthumous tribute will take place at 7:30 p.m. , with the assistance of the mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, his widow, Isabel Belizón, and children, councilors of the municipal corporation and friends and colleagues of local and regional information.
His appointment was approved unanimously in the municipal plenary on February 12.
The file, instructed by the councilman of Culture, David Martinez, was promoted by the Association of Graphical Informants of the Region, of which Carlos Gallego was one of its main promoters.
Asturian by birth, Carlos Gallego arrived in Cartagena at the age of 17, to enter as an industrial master at the national company Bazán.
Soon his photographic concerns encouraged him to found the Asociación Fotográfica de Cartagena (AFOCAR), in the 80s of the last century, and to participate in the creation of the Association of Graphic Informants.
Photographer of recognized prestige in the Region, and in particular in Cartagena, won important national and international awards, among which the Pravda of photography, in 1986.
He developed his profession as a graphic informant working for La Opinión de Cartagena, and as a collaborator at the La Mar de Músicas International Festival, from its creation in 1995 until 2002, when the severity of his illness forced him to retire.
Nonconformist and adventurous, he traveled to areas of special social conflict, such as Sandinista Nicaragua, Pinochet's Chile and the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf.
His work as a photojournalist in Cartagena is an example of his professionalism in the photographs he made, during the hard years of the industrial crisis and the demands of workers in public companies.
In 2003, the Historical Photographic Center of the Region of Murcia (Cehiform) dedicated an anthological exhibition of his work, and published the book "Carlos Gallego" within the Library of Photographers of the Region of Murcia.
He died in 2005, victim of cancer.
After the discovery of the label of the room, the inauguration of its first exhibition will take place, entitled Photojournalism Yearbook 2017, organized by the Association of Graphic Informants, which will be presented by its president, Juan Francisco Moreno.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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