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Daniel Hernández Salazar

April 10, 2025
5pm - 7pm
Location
Ewell Hall, Theater, Room 107
221 Jamestown Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
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  • Open to the public
Daniel Hernández Salazar

Arts & Sciences and the Reves Center for International Studies present 2025 George Tayloe Ross lecturer Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernández Salazar for a keynote address on April 10 at 5pm in the Theater in Ewell Hall.  The performance is free and open to the public.

Daniel Hernández Salazar has loved photography since childhood and worked as a photojournalist for AFP, Reuters and the Associated Press during the Guatemalan Civil War. Currently, he works as a freelance photographer, interested in human subjects and historical memory. He is proficient in both digital and film photography. He has shown his work in more than 35 solo exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Japan, and South Korea. He received the Jonathan Mann Prize in the Humanities (1998) and was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture (2005), leading to his promotion to Officer (2017).

Two anthologies have been published for him, by Kage Shobo (Tokyo, 2006) and the University of Texas (Austin, 2007). His work is on permanent display at the Belgian Museum of the Holocaust and Human Rights, where he conceptualized his exhibition Genocide, the Silent Tragedy of Guatemala (2014). In 2015 he created the Se re (v) bela project, which presented the series Guatemala se re (v) bela (2016) and Xela se re (v) bela (2017). In 2018 it was the turn of San Salvador.

The presentation is part of Spring 2025 Series on Arts & Democracy, co-sponsored by Arts & Sciences and the Reves Center for international Studies. The series features four artists whose practice aims to impact democratic processes.

Sponsored by: Arts & Sciences and Reves Center for International Studies