This Tuesday, January 10, the Grancanario photographer Angel Luis Aldai visited the library of The Canary Museum to deliver a complete collection of his published works. The cultural institution, represented by its director, Ma Angélica Castellano, and its president, Diego López, received from the photographer a total of 18 books, all of them luxuriously edited, which collect all the bibliographic production of the artist, member of the Real Academia Canaria de Be
llas Artes.Angel Luis Aldai was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1949 and entered the world of photography in the early 1970s. Since then he has been particularly sensitive to the images, rural or urban, of its island environment, as evidenced by its books dedicated to the Canarian national parks, the roads of our island or the most surprising corners of Las Palmas or Betancuria. However, his camera has also wandered around other corners of the world, first for his training in countries such as Denmark or the United States and later for his search for images on other continents. Stand out, for example, the beautiful snapshots of the Caribbean that illustrate Quisqueya or the African visions of Soutoura and Géntu Ndaw. Aldai's bibliographical production completes his interest in historical research of photography in the Canary Islands, which is reflected in the set of old photos he selected for Maspalomas antier. Al
l these books are part of the donation that Angel Luis Aldai has deposited in the library of The Canary Museum, thus contributing to the richness of a fund that has become a reference of the documentary heritage of the archipelago.