“I’ve found strength in being able to hold and see myself at this moment in time.”
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/19/arts/black-photographers-self-portraits.html
Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America
Sara T’Rula, the interviewer, is a photographer working on cultural and political issues, and is based in Liverpool, England. In addition to shooting her own projects, she assists John Davies and Ed Clark. At photokina 2012, she grabbed ten minutes to talk with Carlos Javier Ortiz about FCDA where he delves into what the project is and the purpose behind it.
This year’s fellowships will support projects about democracy in the U.S., police shootings in California, and photographic representation of Africa.
via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/04/andrea-bruce-aida-muluney-carlos-javier-ortiz-win-30k-catchlight-fellowships.html
Photographers Andrea Bruce, Carlos Javier Ortiz and Aida Muluneh have won the 2018 Catchlight Fellowships, the San Francisco-based organization announced today. The winners will each receive a $30,000 grant to support an ongoing project.
In Carlos Javier Ortiz’s photo series, black experience of the past and present seems to intermingle and collide.
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-thousand-midnights-chicago-and-the-legacy-of-the-great-migration
In early 2015, my husband, Carlos Javier Ortiz, began working on “A Thousand Midnights,” a photo series and short film that use the surviving documents of my mother’s family history, juxtaposed with pictures of Chicago’s black communities today, to explore the legacy of the Great Migration a century after it began
During the eight years Ortiz worked on the story he says more than 1,500 young people in Chicago were killed.
Carlos Javier Ortiz began working on what would become his series “We All We Got” in 2006, when stray bullets in Chicago killed two young girls—one was…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/01/07/carlos_javier_ortiz_we_all_we_got_examines_youth_violence_in_chicago_and.html
Carlos Javier Ortiz began working on what would become his series “We All We Got” in 2006, when stray bullets in Chicago killed two young girls—one was celebrating her 11th birthday in her home, the other was getting ready to go to school.
Link: Carlos Javier Ortiz: Too Young To Die « The Leica Camera
I have known about the topic of youth violence for a long time. I started covering marches and protests led by community organizers and families who were victims of gun violence and advocated against the slaughter of black youth who are mostly the victims.
From Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights:
Domestic Photography Winner: “Too Young to Die” by Carlos Javier Ortiz, freelancer: Featured in Ebony Magazine, this series examines the epidemic of gun violence which not only plagues lower-income, urban neighborhoods, but youth from all walks of American life. Ortiz’ artistry and sensitivity delivers a powerful look at a tough subject.
International Photography: “Birth and Death”, Carol Guzy, Washington Post: With one in eight women dying in childbirth, Sierra Leone has the world’s highest rate of maternal mortality. Carol Guzy beautifully and movingly captures the pain, desperation and grief experienced by family members dealing with the loss of a young mother, a child, or often both. She amplifies the need for adequate medical care and supplies to stem the avoidable deaths. Guzy is a multiple RFK Award winner.
via APAD.