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RICARD TERRÉ

Ricard Terré was born in Sant Boi in 1928. In 1957, he took part in the “Terré-Miserachs- Masats” Exhibition (TMM) by the Catalonian Photographic Association. The exhibition displayed a new conception of photography different from the academic formalism of the prevailing photographic associations. In the same year he became a member of the AFAL group and in 1959 he moved to Vigo where he actively becomes involved in photographic debates of the Galician Photographic Association (AFG) confronting his ideas with those of its members. Despite the fact that they shared different stances, he collaborates with the AFG in order to organize an exhibition of the works of Otto Steinert. However, when he exhibits his works in 1961 he would rather show it in the showroom “Foto Club de Vigo” (Vigo Photo-Club) since he considered that photography should not be merely restricted to associations. From 1960 to 1966 he created a great number of murals for different business premises in the city. Afterwards he abandoned his photographic career.

In 1982 his works were displayed in “Fotografies catalanes dels anys cinquenta” (Catalonian photographs from the 50s) to be later exhibited in France and in 1984 in the Iª Fotobienal de Vigo (1st Vigo Photo Biennial). Afterwards he takes up photography again and his new works are displayed in the IIª Fotobienal de Vigo (2nd Vigo Photo Biennial). In 1991 the Photographic Studies Centre organizes the 1st monographic exhibition about his works in Vigo and four years later the “la Caixa” Foundation organizes an itinerant exhibition which is displayed in Arles, among other places, and at the same time Lunwerg Publishing Company published one book about him.

Photography was, for him, the medium that made it possible to capture the emotions of a single moment, a moment of human importance. This humanistic approach is present in all his works in which coherence is a distinctive feature.