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Joseph Rodriguez is an American documentary photographer.
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Joseph Rodriguez is an American documentary photographer.
Rodriguez was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. 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. [1]
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 at the Lincoln Center; and the Kari Kenneti Gallery Helsinki, Finland.[ citation needed ]
In 2001 the Juvenile Justice website, featuring Rodriguez's photographs, launched in partnership with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival High School Pilot Program. [2]
Rodriguez teaches at New York University, 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.[ citation needed ]
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