Eduardo Masferré (April 18, 1909 – June 24, 1995) was a Filipino-Catalan photographer who made important documentary reports about the lifestyle of native people in the region of the Cordillera in the Philippines at the middle of 20th century.
[2] Born in Sagada in Mountain Province in northern Luzon, his father was a Spanish soldier who had emigrated from Spain in the late nineteenth century.
There are estimates that place have some seven million photographs on this subject in the fifties made in Bontoc, Kalinga, and Ifugao.
His photographs are intended to show the life of the natives from the point of view of someone who lives with them and with which it identifies, so it has a type emic ethnographic value.
The following year, Smithsonian Institution bought 120 prints of his works for the National Museum of Natural History.