Photographer. His work is a faithful register of historical events. He made studies at the specialty of Graphic Technician at Journalism School Manuel Márquez Sterling.

He has exhibited in Cuba, Brazil, Venezuelan, Argentina, Italy, Mexico, France, Belgic, Germany and United States.

In 1996, he received the National Prize of Plastic Arts of Cuba.
Other important Prizes: Prize of Culture Ministry, National Salon (Havana, Cuba, 1980); Collective Prize, Prize of Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Photography, Casa de las Américas (Havana, Cuba, 1981) and Prize Salon UNEAC'82 (Havana, Cuba, 1982).

Corrales' work has been gathered on book: Cuba, The Image and the History, having sixty three photographic images. ...In this book of Art, Raúl Corrales states the dignity of the photography, which is an over-talked technical support, underestimated about its creative possibilities and considered only as a simple reproductor far from the artistic creation and recreation...(1)

Solo Exhibitions:
1984 Recount. Works of Raúl Martínez and Raúl Corrales. Camagüey, Cuba.
1985 Homage to Raúl Corrales. National Fine Arts Museum, Havana, Cuba.
1986 Images of the History, Contemporary Art Museum, Parana, Brazil.
1987 Retrospective of Raúl Corrales. The Warm Spaces Gallery, Ateneo from Caracas, Venezuela.
1987 Photography from Corrales. Paulista Week of the Photography, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Cuba, Images of the History. FUNARTE Gallery, Río de Janeiro.
1988 Marucha and Corrales, two Cuban Photographers. Photospace, Buenos Aires, Argentine.
1990 Cojimar-Ernest Hemingway, il vecchio e il mare. Diaframm A-Kodak Culture, Milan, Italy.
1991 Cuban Photographers: Alberto Korda, Raúl Corrales, Abelardo Rodríguez. Vicente Gabriel Gohoga Picheta Gallery, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.
1993 Visa pour I'image. Cinquiéme Festival International du Photoreportage, Perignan, France.
1994 Cirque Diver Gallery. Liege, Belgic.

Main Group Exhibitions: :
1987 Sicof'87. Sezione Culturale. Palazzo Cisi, Milán, Italy.
1988 Bilder von Menchen, Kubanische Fotografie.
1959 Bis Heute. FOTOKINA, Colonia, Germany.
1989 Cuba par les cubains. Visa pour I'image. Premiér Festival International du Photoreportage. Chapelle du Counvent des Menines, Perpignan, France.
1990 Sixteen Cuban Photographers. International Press Center, Havana, Cuba.
1991 Cuban Contemporary Photography in 150 images. IV Biennial of Havana, International Press Center, Cuba. Contemporary Latinoamerican Photographers. Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, United States.
1992 V Photo Biennial. Vigo, Galicia, Spain. Kubanische Fotografier 1959-1992. Neue Gessenschaft Bildende Kunst, Berlín, Germany. Cuban Contemporary Cuban Photography. Mexican Ateneo of Photography, Mexico D. F., Mexico.
1993 The Infant Image. Fototeca of Cuba, Havana, Cuba. Song to the Reality. Latinoamerican Photography (1860-1993). America House, Madrid, Spain. 150 years of Cuban Itinerant Photography. Fototeca of Cuba, Havana, Cuba; Ateneo of Photography Mexico D.F., Mexico; Gallery of Masters Michoacanos, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.
1994 Art of Our America. Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba. 45 years of Cuban Itinerant Photography. Art Gallery Joao Do Monte, Valinhos Sao Paulo, Brazil; Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.

Raúl Corrales received in 2005 the category of Doctor Honoris Causa, conferred by the Superior Institute of Art, Havana.

1) Zoe Armenteros Mejuto. Raúl Corrales y el don de la videncia. ARTECUBANO, no.1, 1999.

More information at La Bijirita and National Council of Plastic Arts.