Baldomero Pestana (Castroverde, (1917-12-28)December 28, 1917 – Bascuas, Province of Lugo in Galicia, (2015-07-07)July 7, 2015) was a Spanish photographer, painter, and figurative artist.

[3] There, he met numerous personalities of the great Latin American literary boom such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Luis Borges, and Sebastián Salazar Bondy.

He exhibited works in Peru, Argentina, France, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, South Korea, the United States, among others.

[15] In 2018, the Gaiás Center Museum in the City of Culture of Galicia paid posthumous tribute to him with Baldomero Pestana: The truth in the hands, an exhibition focused on the photography of the artist from Lugo,[16] which was also presented at the Instituto Cervantes in Paris[17] along with the book of the same name.

[18] In July 2022, the Central Reserve Bank of Peru issued a new 20-sol banknote featuring a portrait of José María Arguedas based on a photo taken by Baldomero Pestana.