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Zoran Erceg - 23.10.2007. Fernando Castro R. studied philosophy at Rice University as a Fulbright scholar (1979-1985).His book Five Rolls of Plus-X (1982) alternated poetry and photography. His career as a critic beganin 1988 writing for El Comercio (Lima). Since then he has contributed to Lima Times, Photometro (San Francisco),Art-Nexus (Colombia), Cámara Extra (Caracas), Zonezero.com (México), Artlies, Visible, Literal, Spot (Houston),Arte Al Dia (Miami), Aperture (New York), etc. His curatorial work includes "Modernity in the Southern Andes:Peruvian Photography 1900-1930"; "The Art of Risk / The Risk of Art" (1999), “Stone” (2004), “The Art of War”(2006), and "With Other Eyes" (2007). His photographic work took a political turn in 1997 under the title "Reasonsof State." His most recent solo exhibit “The Ideology of Color” (2004) at the Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Airesis now an on-line exhibition at the Lehigh University website. His works are in the permanent collectionsof the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, The Dancing Bear Collection (New York), Lehigh University (Pennsylvania),Museo de Arte de Lima, Harry Ransom Research Center (Austin), etc. He is a member of the art boardof FotoFest andof the advisory council of the Houston Center for Photography. He currently lives and worksin Houston.
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