Joe Rodriguez and David Gonzalez will be discussing his groundbreaking National Geographic cover on Spanish Harlem in the 1980s, looking back on a vital New York City community that is undergoing increasing gentrification.
Presenters: Joseph Rodriguez David Gonzalez
Location: St. Ann’s Warehouse
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Photoville Talks at St. Ann’s Warehouse are produced by United Photo Industries and supported in part by PhotoWings and the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.
Joe Rodriguez and David Gonzalez will be discussing his groundbreaking National Geographic cover on Spanish Harlem in the 1980s, looking back on a vital New York City community that is undergoing increasing gentrification. They will also explore how the project dealt with representation, as well as its continued impact decades later.
Joseph Rodríguez is a documentary photographer born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and in the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Program at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
Recent exhibitions of his work have appeared at Galleri Kontrast in Stockholm, Sweden; the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Fototeca in Havana, Cuba; the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham, Alabama; the Open Society Institute’s Moving Walls in New York; the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center; and the Kari Kenneti Gallery in Helsinki, Finland.
In 2001, the Juvenile Justice website, featuring Joseph Rodríguez’s photographs, launched in partnership with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival High School Pilot Program.
Joseph teaches classes at New York University, the International Center of Photography in New York, and universities in Mexico and Europe.
Rodríguez won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1993 photographing gang families in East Los Angeles.
David Gonzalez is a Nuyorican photographer born in the Bronx. He has received his education from Cardinal Hayes High School, Yale, and Columbia. He began taking photos seriously in 1978, then shifted to writing until 1999, when he resumed making pictures while reporting in Central America for The New York Times. He is a founding member of Seis del Sur, and longtime co-editor of the Lens blog.
Photo: © Edwin Pagan/Seis del Sur
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