The writer and journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte presents in the Anselma room of the Ateneo de Madrid (Prado street, 21) the exhibition War Photographs 1974-1985.
In the mid-70s, Arturo Pérez-Reverte began to move through the vast geography of disasters loaded with an Olivetti Lettera 32 and a couple of cameras hanging around his neck.
In the Middle East, Angola, El Salvador, or the Balkans, he learned as a young reporter that war resembled very little of what he had read or imagined until then: it was a succession of monotonies and brutalities, of long waits and quick events, tired looks, men he saw aging, like himself, in just a few days. For more than twenty years he walked through that world trying to understand. He did not count or photograph the war: he counted and photographed the human being within it.
A selection of those negatives, forgotten in boxes for more than 35 years, are now part of the first exhibition dedicated to his work as a photojournalist.