Rafael Navarro was bom in Zaragoza in 1940, in the bosom of a middle class family. He is the father of six children: César, Alijandro, Sergio, Eduardo, Isabel y Pablo.
His professional activity covers two different aspects: on the one hand he is managing director of a company, and the other, a plastic artist.

At around the twenty eight, he begins to develop a deep interest in photography field in which he will feel himsef at ease. After his first attempts portraying the world of reportage, thither sports ... he decides to focus on the field of plastic arts.

Rafael Navarro uses the photography as a way out to channel his tendency towards introversion and tell us about his life with total sincerity. His works collect not only his good moments, but especially all the bad ones, those in which he tests himself line a human being by recognising and facing his individual and social fears, trying to communicate in depth with the rest of the people.

His production comprises two types of works: one closed and moving around a specific idea; the other remains open and keeps growing trough the years. In regards to formats, dichotomy is once more present from conventional sizes to great assemblies.

Landscape; nudes, textures ... are his favourite motives, but always from a subjective point of view, taking contents out of their contexts, and materialising his feelings in ways that have very little to do with the objects in their real world.

Rafael Navarro combines his creative work with other activities in the same field. He coordinates exhibitions the Spanish photographers abroad; he participates in congresses and imparts courses about different subjects (the language of photography, the nude, ...) in Europe and America. In 1974 he was elected President of the Sociedad Fotográfica de Zaragoza, in 1976 he was named A.F.I.A.P. by the Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique. In 1977 found together with Manel Esclusa, Joan Fontcuberta and Pere Fonrmiguera the group Alabern. In 1978 he was elected representative of the Consejo Latinoamericano de Fotografia in Spain and in 1985 member of the Joan Miró Foundation's Advisory Comittee in Barcelona.

1975 Galeria Spectrum-Canon, Barcelona, España
1997 Galeria Altre Immagini, Roma, Italia
1978 Canon Photo Gallery, Genève, Suiza
1979 Canon Photo Gallery, Amsterdam, Holanda
1979 The White Gallery, Tel Avi, Israel
1979 Salas de Exposiciones de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, México
1980 Paule Pia Galerij, Antwerpen, Bélgica
1980 Night Gallery, London, Gran Bretaña
1980 Photographic Center Gallery, Atenas, Grecia
1981 Instituto Cultural Hispano-Méxicano, México D.F., México
1982 Fotogaleria Forum, Tarragona, España
1982 Galerie du Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Bélgica
1982 Galeria Album, Saô Paulo, Brasil
1982 La Chambre Claire, Paris, Francia
1982 Galeria Redor, Madrid, España
1983 Galerie Le Riverbère, Lyon, Francia
1983 Galerie "Pro Photo" Ursula Ehrhardt, Nümberg, Alemania
1985 Zur Stockereeg, Zurich, Suiza
1985 Galría Petroperú, Lima, Perú
1986 Palacio de Exposiciones Kiosco Alfonso, La Coruña, España
1986 Salas del Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza, España
1987 Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Noruega
1987 Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, España
1987 Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, España
1987 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, Estados Unidos
1988 La Sellerie - ADAC, Aurillac, Francia
1989 Le Château d'Eau, Toulouse, Francia
1989 Galerie Faber, Wien, Austria
1989 Teatro Municipal de San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1989 Centre de la Photographie - Genève, Maison Le Grütli, Genève, Suiza
1990 Galeria Spectrum, Zaragoza, España
1992 International Week of Photography, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1992 Casa dos Crivos, Braga, Portugal
1992 Escuela Argentina de Fotografia, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1993 Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italia
1994 Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca, España
1995 Atelier Magenta, Lyon, Francia
1996 Antiguo Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, México
1996 VIII Encuentros Abiertos - Mes de la Fotografia en Buenos Aires, Museo Enrique Larreta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1996 Sala de exposiciones de la Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, España

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Francia
Colección Julio Alvarez Sotos, Zaragoza, España
Musée Reattu, Arles, Francia
Colección Hartkamp, Amerongen, Holanda
Centro Hidalgo, México D.F., México
Colección Polaroid, Cambridge, Estados Unidos
Musée d'Art Moderne, Bruxelles, Belgica
Museum of Contemporaty Art Skopje, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Fototeca de la Casa de la Fotografia de México, México D.F., México
Museo de Arte Moderno, México D.F., México
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgica
Colección Fabio Castelli, Milano, Italia
Musée Nicéphore Nièpce, Chalons-sur-Saône, Francia
International Junij Collection, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Fototeca de la Casa de las Amiricas, La Habana, Cuba
FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon, Montpellier, Francia
Fondos de Arte de las Cortes de Aragón, Zaragoza, España
Museo de la Universidad de Parma, Parma, Italia
Colecci6n Formiguera, Barcelona, España
Colección de la Caja de Ahorros de San Fernando, Sevilla, España
Museo de Arte Contemporäneo, Madrid, España
Colección Auer, Genève, Suiza
Mus6e Château d'Eau, Toulouse, Francia
IVAM-Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, España
Colección Cualladó, Madrid, España
Fototeca de Córdoba, Córdoba, España
Yokohama Museum of Art Yokohama, Japón
Colección Fontcuberta, Barcelona, España
Galleria de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea de Bergamo, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italia
Fundación Arco-Ifema, Madrid, España
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, España
Colección Visor, Valencia, España
Fonds Municipal de Décoration, Genève, Suiza
Colección Forum, Tarragona, España
Centro de Fotografia de Tenerife, Tenerife, España
Museo de Obra en Papel, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, España
Colección Pública de Fotografia del Ayuntamiento de Alcobendas, Alcobendas, España
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colección Rafael Tous, Barcelona, España
Fototeca Nacional de Cuba, La Habana, Cuba
Colección Encontros da Imagen, Braga, Portugal
Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italia