Eulogio Nishiyama

Eulogio Nishiyama was born in Cuzco in 1920, the son of a Japanese man from Wakayama, who ran first a restaurant and then a bazaar in the city, and of a woman from Cuzco; he was called el Chino. He studied economics at the University of San Antonio Abad, but photography came before everything, and he worked for La Crónica of Lima: his pictures of the earthquake of 21 May 1950, taken during the tremor, were sent to the capital by air. A pioneer of ethnographic documentary in the region, he was among the founders of the Cuzco film club and directed the Instituto Americano de Arte. He died in 1996.

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• CinemaKukuliEulogio Nishiyama · 1961Cinema