1. Manuel Rivera-Ortiz was born on December 23,1968 and is a stateside Puerto Rican photographer.
13 Facts About Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz is best known for his social documentary photography of people's living conditions in less developed nations.
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz grew up in a corrugated tin shack with dirt floors devoid of running water.
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz's father hand-chopped sugar cane in the fields of Central Machete and Central Aguirre in the declining days of the Puerto Rican sugar industry, and, following the Zafra or sugar-harvesting season, labored as a migrant farmworker in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
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When Manuel Rivera-Ortiz was 11 years old, his parents separated and his father moved with the children to the USA mainland in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz was the 2024 Commencement speaker of Nazareth University and received an honorary doctorate from the university for his achievements.
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz's work is included in museum and corporate collections, including George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Berne.
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz has exhibited photographs showing the dignity of the Dalit Caste of India and the Aymara living in the arid altiplano of Bolivia.
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz has photographed people from Kenya to Turkey to Thailand.
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz's work has been featured in the April 2008 issue of Rangefinder magazine.
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In 2010, Manuel Rivera-Ortiz visited Dharavi and Baiganwadi and took pictures of daily life in these two Mumbai slums.
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz can be classified as a social realist with his focus on social issues and the hardships of everyday life.
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Manuel Rivera-Ortiz established the Foundation in 2010 to support underrepresented photographers and filmmakers from less developed countries with awards, grants, exhibitions, and educational programs.