Ricard Terré

Ricard Terré (Sant Boi de Llobregat, 1928 - Vigo 2009) is considered one of the most outstanding photographers of the Afal generation (1950-1960). He studied at the Escuela de Altos Estudios Mercantiles in Barcelona. He began in the art world as a painter and caricaturist. He began to practice photography as a child with rudimentary cameras, some of which he made himself. In 1955 he became a member of the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya, where he held his first exhibition with Ramón Masats and Xavier Miserachs in 1957. Two years later they inaugurated the mythical Sala Aixelà with the TMMII exhibition, which was to initiate the renewal of photography in Spain. In 1959 he moved to Galicia, a land that inspired him because of its intact rural world and its way of understanding religion in collective rites. Since then he has participated in many editorial and exhibition projects, both in Spain and abroad. His international projection has been growing thanks to Christian Caujolle and the Parisian agency Vú’. His photography, with a great thematic and formal coherence, has a character that makes it identifiable, even taking into account the diversity of series he has produced throughout his career. In 2008, a year before his death, he received the Bartolomé Ros Prize for the best photographic career, awarded by the PhotoEspaña photography festival.