Moral, Manuel

Portuguese photographer born in 1865 and died in Peru in 1913. He arrived in Peru in 1883, at the age of just eighteen. In Lima, there was already a significant presence of European and North American photographers, as well as a smaller number of Peruvian photographers, among whom Rafael Castillo stood out. Moral established himself in El Callao, at La Misión 17, a very central and commercial location where immigrants, mostly Europeans, had prosperous businesses. It was there that he began his relationship with the Scottish photographer William T. Mason. Moral remained in the El Callao studio until around 1900. By the end of the century, he had two studios, one in the port and another on Mantas Street in central Lima. He transferred the El Callao studio to the Colombian photographer Rafael Colmenares.