Perspectives in Documentary Photography

Sep 212013

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Perspectives in Documentary Photography

This interactive, bilingual workshop will explore the impact and importance of documentary photography in telling personal and political stories.

Presenters: Huascar Robles Miguel Rosario

Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands

#Documentary Photography

This interactive, bilingual workshop will explore the impact and importance of documentary photography in telling personal and political stories. Huascar Robles and Miguel Rosario will teach students the basics of documentary photography through their images and a subsequent discussion that will lead to common concerns and answers for those interested in the field. Robles is a seasoned journalist and photographer with a knack for social photography rooted on cultural studies; Rosario delves into his Dominican roots to showcase the human condition.

Presenter Bios

Huascar Robles

Huáscar Robles is a journalist and documentary photographer and was awarded a fellowship from Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. He traveled to Haiti as a correspondent for the Ochberg Society for Trauma Journalism and produced a series of photographs following the 2010 earthquake. Robles has also served as the Communications Manager with Muuaaa, which organized CIRCA, Puerto Rico’s first contemporary art fair. He lives and works in New York.
Miguel Rosario

Miguel Rosario is currently a youth photography instructor at AS220, an arts non-profit in Providence, Rhode Island that provides low and no-cost arts education and employment programs for at risk youth and young people both in and transitioning out of state care. Since 2009, Rosario has traveled to the Dominican Republic to document his hometown on black and white film. He has been featured on National Public Radio’s “This I Believe” and has shown work at multiple galleries in Providence and beyond.