Capturing Chicago's Image – our photo workshop
We’re very lucky to have Carlos Javier Ortiz for our photography workshop this Tuesday for the ethnic news media. The session is from 9 to 11 am at our offices, 218 s. Wabash, 7th floor. We’re close to capacity but we can squeeze a few more folks. Let me know if you want to join us. Steve@newstips.org
Here’s his bio.
Carlos Javier was a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his project, Too Young To Die in 2008. Carlos Javier recently received the 2009 domestic photography award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights for the Too Young To Die project
Carlos Javier Ortiz was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and raised in Chicago, Illinois. As a teenager, his love of photography led him to work at a traveling carnival to save money for photography equipment and college tuition. Later, Carlos Javier attended Columbia College in Chicago, where he studied photojournalism. Following college, Carlos Javier was a staff photographer for Chicago In The Year 2000 (CITY 2000), a yearlong project documenting the city and its inhabitants. He worked for several years as a photojournalist for newspapers in Philadelphia and New Jersey. Carlos Javier is currently working on a cross-cultural youth violence project, which documents adolescents in Chicago and Guatemala. The project documents the lives of youth victims of violence as well as the teenage perpetrators of these crimes. Carlos Javier’s work is sponsored by the Blue Earth Alliance, a non-profit organization that supports documentary photography projects of endangered cultures, threatened environments, or current topics of social concern.
His work has appeared in Ebony Magazine, Newsweek, Time Magazine Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, NPR, Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ) The Guardian, Stern Magazine, Internazionale Magazine, and other publications.
Here are his award winning photos from Ebony:
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