Nelson Ramírez de Arellano Conde was born in Berlin, Germany in 1969 and currently lives and works in Havana, Cuba. He is an artist, curator, and Director of the Fototeca de Cuba (National Museum and Gallery of Photography). Ramírez de Arellano was also chief curator of Fototeca de Cuba from 2001 to 2010 and, as curator, won the National Curatorial Award in 2006 for the exhibition The City and Photography: Havana 1900-2005 organized for the IX Havana Biennial. He is the founder and organizer of the Havana Month of Photography (Noviembre Fotográfico) and an internationally recognized contemporary artist, who, as member of the artistic team “Liudmila & Nelson,” represented Cuba at the 53rd Venice Biennial.