Baldomero Alejos was a photographer who worked for over half a century (1924-1976) in the Peruvian city of Ayuchuco. The artistic quality and the historic value of his images has caused Baldomero Alejos to be recognized as one of the most important Peruvian artists of the last century. His photographic archive consists of of more than 60,000 images documenting life in Ayacucho. The photographs portray the social, civic, religious and cultural life of this special city during the peaceful decades before terrorism gripped the city, and eventually the nation.

Alejos’ unique feeling for natural light and his ability to bring out the most characteristic expression in his subjects made him not only a visual historian of note but an exceptional artist as well. Alejos always searched for beauty in each of his photographs, a search he made for beauty’s sake alone, not for posterity. In that respect, he was a perfectionist. Those who knew him say he would spent long hours in front of a window working on prints and negatives.