Artist’s Talk and Book Signing: José Galvez March 19, 2012

Prize-winning photojournalist José Galvez will discuss his career documenting the everyday lives of Latinos in the United States, with special focus on his new work from the South. Born into the Mexican barrios of Tucson, Galvez entered the building of the Arizona Daily Star carrying his shoeshine box when he was 10 years old. He became a permanent fixture in the newsroom and bought a camera at a pawnshop in high school. Galvez majored in journalism at the University of Arizona and became a staff photographer at the Star where he focused his lens on his home, the barrios of Tucson, and the Mexican-American people who lived, worked, and loved there. Galvez became the first Mexican-American photographer on the staff of the Los Angeles Times, and in 1984, he and his Chicano colleagues there won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on Latino life 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. In 2000, he published his first solo book, Vatos, collaboration with esteemed poet Luis Alberto Urrea. In Beloved Land, he and famed oral historian Patricia Martin explored the lives of Mexican pioneer ranchers in the American Southwest. In 2004, Galvez and his family moved to North Carolina to photograph Hispanic immigration in the South. His photographs have been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, including the Smithsonian Institution.