Joseph Rodriguez

http://josephrodriguezphotography.com

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Joseph Rodriguez was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He began studying photography at the School of Visual Arts and went on to receive an Associate of Applied Science at New York City Technical College. He worked in the graphic arts industry before deciding to pursue photography further. In 1985 he graduated with a Photojournalism and Documentary Diploma from the International Center of Photography in New York. He went on to work for Black Star photo agency, and print and online news organizations like National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Newsweek, New York Magazine, Esquire, Stern, BBC News and New America Media. Advertising Campaigns for Levi’s, AIG, Ikea. He has received awards and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Artists' Fellowship, USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, the Open Society Institute Justice Media Fellowship and Katrina Media Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography, the Alicia Patterson Fellowship Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Konstnarsnamden Stipendium. He has been awarded Pictures of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri, in 1990,, 1992, 1996 and 2002. He is the author of Spanish Harlem, part of the “American Scene” series, by the National Museum of American Art/ D.A.P., as well as East Side Stories: Gang Life in East Los Angeles, Juvenile, Flesh Life Sex in Mexico City, and Still Here: Stories After Katrina, Powerhouse Books, Spanish Harlem El Barrio in the 80s, Powerhouse Books. Recent exhibitions include Aperture Gallery; Galerie Bene Taschen , Cologne, Germany; Reva and David Logan Gallery for Documentary Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley, California; Bronx Documentary Center, New York, NY; Gulf + Western Gallery, New York, NY; Hardhitta Gallery, Cologne, Germany; Irene Carlson Gallery of Photography, University of La Verne, California; Third Floor Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK; Institute for Public Knowledge, New York, NY; Moving Walls, Open Society Institute, New York, NY; and Cultural Memory Matters, 601 Art Space, New York, NY. He has been visiting artist at Stanford University, The Institute for Diversity in the Arts, California, and The University of La Verne, California; Columbia University, School of Journalism, New York; University of Texas, Austin, School of Journalism; Ringling School of Art and Design, Florida; The University of Helsinki, Finland; Aarhus University, Denmark; Royal University of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Sweden; Loyola Marymount University, California; Hostos Community College, New York; CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, New York. He presently teaches at New York University Tisch School of the Arts