A Wonderful Tribute to Peruvian Photographer Daniel Pajuelo

During one of my evening classes which shall remain annonymous for obvious reasons, I often have to wait anywhere from 10 minutes to half an hour for my students to arrive.  While at first it was rather annoying I soon came to understand the reality of my students taxing work situation.  Naturally I adapted to the situation but mostly thanks to their comfortable guest room which had a modest quantity of interesting popular magazines.  One particular favourite of mine is El Comercio´s Somos magazine which is published with the Saturday newspaper (it´s a pop culture related magazine). 

About three weeks ago while waiting for said class I was flipping through the latest addition of Somos when I came across an article paying homage to a famous Peruvian photographer Daniel Pajuelo who had passed away 10 years ago.  From the few photographs illustrated in the magazine I could easily see just how talented this devote photographer was.  A man who dedicated his craft to capturing the heart and soul of human existance in the omnipresent city of Lima.  His photographs documented life in the 1990´s and his use of black and white photography sets the mood and tone of the perfectly. Pajuelo unfortuantely passed away in 2000 after a year long battle with a brain tumor.  Though he is gone his spirit lives on, as his work will be forever remembered.

Today while on the internet I found a video tribute put together by his Renato which was uploaded to YouTube (though I saw it on an awesome Peruvian photography website called PeruFotoLibre).  I have posted the video below and I highly recommend everyone to watch it!  The video highlights a collection of Daniel´s best work.