Eutropio Rodríguez

Book Talk: Eutropio Rodríguez

Wed, Feb 18 • 6:30 PM

BDC Main
614 Courtlandt Ave
Bronx, NY 10451

Join photographer Eutropio Rodríguez for a discussion of his photobook The Generals of Ulla.

All images: © Eutropio Rodríguez

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The Generals of Ulla is a photobook that documents, for the first time in a complete and systematic way, one of Europe’s most singular Carnival traditions: the Xenerais da Ulla, celebrated across ten municipalities in the Ulla River valley in Galicia, northern Spain.

Over a five-year period, photographers Javier Iglesias Ramos and Eutropio Rodríguez followed the festival in all its variations—horseback parades, baroque military attire, and the iconic atranques—creating a powerful visual narrative of a living and evolving ritual.Research by musician and anthropology researcher Fernando Reyes, explores the origins of the tradition and situates it within the broader context of Baroque festive culture in the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas, reaffirming the Generals of Ulla as a cultural heritage of exceptional historical and artistic value.

Eutropio Rodríguez (@eutropiorodriguez) is a Spanish documentary photographer and visual storyteller based in Spain and the United States. He studied documentary photography at the International Center of Photography  and holds a degree in Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela. His work focuses on long-term documentary projects that explore human relationships, cultural identity and social environments. His projects have been exhibited and published internationally, including The Fraga Family, a documentary series portraying the life of a Galician-Cuban family in New York.