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Joel Salcido
American, born Mexico
American, born Mexico, b. 20th c.
Joel Salcido began working professionally in photography as an intern for the El Paso Times in 1979. As a staff photographer for the newspaper he documented the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, covered the 1985 Mexico earthquake and traveled extensively in Latin America for USA Today. He received multiple awards, amongst them several for his coverage of life in Cuba and inhalant abuse on the U.S.-Mexican border.
In 1991 Salcido left as photo editor of The El Paso Times to pursue commercial and editorial photography. Eight years later he moved his family to Spain for a sabbatical year to work on his fine art photography. His fine art photographs are now in the permanent collections of the Witliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography at Texas State University-San Marcos, The El Paso Museum of Art, the Harry Ransom Humanities Center at UT Austin and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Joel Salcido continues to work as an editorial and fine art photographer in Austin and produces work for galleries and publications like USA Today and Texas Highways. In 2004 he was one of three Fulbright scholarship finalists for a Bolivian photography project and was nominated for the 2005 Art House Texas Prize.
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American, born Mexico
American, born Mexico, b. 20th c.
Joel Salcido began working professionally in photography as an intern for the El Paso Times in 1979. As a staff photographer for the newspaper he documented the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, covered the 1985 Mexico earthquake and traveled extensively in Latin America for USA Today. He received multiple awards, amongst them several for his coverage of life in Cuba and inhalant abuse on the U.S.-Mexican border.
In 1991 Salcido left as photo editor of The El Paso Times to pursue commercial and editorial photography. Eight years later he moved his family to Spain for a sabbatical year to work on his fine art photography. His fine art photographs are now in the permanent collections of the Witliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography at Texas State University-San Marcos, The El Paso Museum of Art, the Harry Ransom Humanities Center at UT Austin and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Joel Salcido continues to work as an editorial and fine art photographer in Austin and produces work for galleries and publications like USA Today and Texas Highways. In 2004 he was one of three Fulbright scholarship finalists for a Bolivian photography project and was nominated for the 2005 Art House Texas Prize.
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Artist Objects
Serenata A Mi Muerte 2013.019