Joseph Rodriguez is an American
documentary photographer.
Life and work
Rodriguez was born and raised in
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
. He studied photography in the
School of Visual Arts and in the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Program at the
International Center of Photography in New York City.
He drove a cab from 1977 to 1985, and in the last two years of which, studying to be a photographer, he photographed while working.
Recent exhibitions of his work have appeared at Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm, Sweden; The African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA; The Fototeca, Havana, Cuba; Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, Open Society Institute's Moving Walls, New York; Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at the
Walter Reade Theater
Film at Lincoln Center, previously known as the Film Society of Lincoln Center until 2019,Aridi, Sara (April 28, 2019).. ''The New York Times''. nytimes.com. Retrieved April 29, 2019. is a film society based in New York City, United States. Fo ...
at the Lincoln Center; and the Kari Kenneti Gallery Helsinki, Finland.
In 2001 the Juvenile Justice website, featuring Rodriguez's photographs, launched in partnership with the
Human Rights Watch
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International Film Festival High School Pilot Program.
Juvenile Justice
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Rodriguez teaches at New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
, the International Center of Photography, New York and has also taught at universities in Mexico and Europe, including Scandinavia.
He won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1993 photographing gang families in East Los Angeles.
Publications
*''A Humanist Gaze.'' Taschen, 2013.
*''Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the '80s.'' powerHouse, 2017. .
References
External links
*
Profile page at Bill Charles
American photojournalists
People from Brooklyn
Living people
Documentary photographers
Journalists from New York City
Year of birth missing (living people)
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