Manuel Moral y Vega

Manuel Augusto Moral da Veiga (16 March 1865 - 7 November 1913), also known as Manuel Moral y Vega or simply as Moral, was a Portuguese photographer and publisher. He was active in early twentieth-century Peru, where he is considered the "father of Peruvian photojournalism."

In Peru, he was involved in the publication of Prisma (1905 - June 1907), Variedades (a weekly launched 10 March 1908 and the former's successor) and, later, La Crónica. He maintained photographic studios in Callao and Central Lima.

Biography Moral was born in Faro, Portugal, in 1865. He reached Peru in 1883, establishing himself in Callao, at No. 17 of Calle La Misión, until 1900. In 1903, he inaugurated his studio at Calle Mantas, in central Lima.

He died in Lima on November 7, 1913. In 1916, photographer purchased the studio's inventory, serving as Moral's successor and superimposing a signature of his own in several of Moral's photographs.