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Wyatt Gallery

Born 1975, Philadelphia · Photography

Wyatt Gallery (born 1975) is an American photographer from Philadelphia who lives between New York City and Trinidad and Tobago, known for work made in the Caribbean and in places after natural disasters. He co-founded the artist-led platform For Freedoms, and his work is in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

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About the artist

Wyatt Gallery, "a person not a place", is a Philadelphia native who received his BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 1997 and a Fulbright Fellowship to Trinidad; he lives between New York City and Trinidad and Tobago (Wyatt Gallery). He was born in 1975 (Noorderlicht).

He has made photo series in several Caribbean nations and often documents places after natural disasters, among them New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and Haiti after the 2010 earthquake; in 2016 he co-founded For Freedoms with Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman and Michelle Woo (Wikipedia). His books Tent Life: Haiti and #SANDY raised over $60,000 for communities affected by those disasters, and his work is held by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the George Eastman House and the New Orleans Museum of Art, among others (Wyatt Gallery). His projects include the series Just a Thought (Wyatt Gallery).

Sources

  1. Wyatt Gallery: Bio
  2. Noorderlicht: Wyatt Gallery
  3. Wikipedia: Wyatt Gallery
  4. Wyatt Gallery: Just a Thought

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