Prize-Winning Photographer To Exhibit, Speak - Wayne Community College | Goldsboro, NC

Prize-Winning Photographer To Exhibit, Speak

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Wayne Community College and Wayne County Public Library will co-sponsor a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer José Galvez about his experiences documenting Latino life and an exhibit of his works on Nov. 10.

“Aqui Estamos” will include a display of Galvez’s black-and-white photos that opens at 6 p.m., his presentation from 7-8 p.m., and a reception with the artist among the works to wrap up the evening.

The free public event will be held in Moffatt Auditorium and the Atrium of the Wayne Learning Center on the college’s main campus in Goldsboro. It serves as the college’s Cultural Diversity/Global Education Committee’s fall World View lecture.

Since the late 1960s, Tucson, Arizona native Galvez has used black and white photography to document Latino life and culture in the United States.

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer José Galvez
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer José Galvez

A newspaper photographer for more than 20 years, Galvez was a member of a team of reporters and photographers at the “Los Angeles Times” that won a Pulitzer Prize in Community Service for a series on the Latino experience in Southern California.

Galvez served as senior photo editor and contributor to “Americanos,” a multi-media exhibition documenting Latino life in the United States led by Edward James Olmos. His first book, “Vatos,” a collaboration with Luis Alberto Urrea, was honored by the American Library Association. “Beloved Land,” which he co-authored with famed oral historian Patricia Martin, explored the lives of Mexican pioneer ranchers in the American Southwest. And his latest book, “Shine Boy,” combines his life story and his photographs.

Galvez’s photographs have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries in the U.S. and abroad, including the Smithsonian Institution, and also at schools, libraries, fiestas, lowrider shows, and rodeos. He has spoken at dozens of colleges and universities.

In 2004, Galvez and his family moved to North Carolina to photograph Hispanic immigration in the South and he continues to travel the country photographing Latinos wherever he goes.

The National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, through the support of the Ford Foundation and JP Morgan Chase, awarded Galvez and his wife Anne partial funding to create the photography/oral history project “Land of Opportunity: Latino Entrepreneurs of North Carolina” in 2004. “Patriotísmo,” a collection of his photographs shot after 9/11, was installed in the Las Cruces, NM, Federal Courthouse in 2010.

More about Galvez’s work can be found at www.josegalvez.com and on his Facebook page.

For more information on the talk, contact Tara Humphries at (919) 739-7002 or tarah@waynecc.edu.

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