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Net Casting by Pedro Luis Raota

Net Casting Photoreporter of the Year, prize stories 1968 A fisherwoman collects the fishing nets. Pho
Published March 28, 2017

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Net Casting

Photoreporter of the Year, prize stories

1968

A fisherwoman collects the fishing nets.

Photo Credit: Pedro Luis Raota

Pedro Luis Raota was born on April 26, 1934 in the Province of El Chaco. His parents, farmers, expected nothing more from him than a continuity in the work of the Earth. When he was still very young, his ambitions went beyond agriculture. He left his hometown to discover the world. He moves to the city of Santa Fe de la. Veracruz which was the first stop on his long journey.

In 1958 in the small town where he resides, for the first time he takes part in a Photo contest and takes the First Prize. Encouraged then, sends his works to important salons throughout the country and although his photographs were not always accepted and very few of them received prizes, after some time the judges in the country, they begun to judge them as the best.

In 1966 he won the First Prize in a photo contest organized by Mundo Hispánico, a magazine of Madrid (Spain), whose subject was Vida y Costumbres del Gaucho of Argentina. This was the first major prize out of the country despite the fact that he had been sending his work without too much luck, to several international Salons. In 1967, at the same time as the Cinematographic Festival of Cannes, a photographic exhibition under the title Unusual Photographs. From 2500 participants of the world wins the second prize.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2017

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