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Photo Feature: Ferval
By: Ilona Hernández | Photos: Ferval
All of us see the same way but not all of us can see the same thing. This results in some people taking photographs while others can only see the printed image. Fernando Francisco Valdés Alvarez can see what we can't.
There are many Fernando's, he has said, so that is how the name Ferval was born and that is the moniker that is well known to photographers and collectors of photographic art.
He was educated as an engineer in food chemistry and worked in that field until discovering photography. He made his first attempts with a borrowed Russian Zenith camera and he "would shoot everything that moved." He had his start at Avance, the newspaper of the Cuban Navy, where he arrived fully passionate about photography.
Following that job, he started as a photo-reporter for the Prensa Latina News Agency where he has worked for the last nine years
see the same thing. This results in some people taking photographs while others can only see the printed image. Fernando Francisco Valdés Alvarez can see what we can't.
photography. He made his first attempts with a borrowed Russian Zenith camera and he "would shoot everything that moved." He had his start at Avance, the newspaper of the Cuban Navy, where he arrived fully passionate about photography.
