ALEX GARCIA
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Alex Garcia has been called one of the "world's leading photojournalists" by HarperCollins. The focus of his travels in his 25- year career has largely been in Latin America and more specifically Cuba, the country of his heritage. He was the first photographer to work in a newspaper bureau in Cuba in 40 years, after the Chicago Tribune received special permission from both the U.S. and Cuban governments to open a bureau in Havana. His resulting work won a first place in the esteemed World Press Photo competition.
Garcia is currently an online professor with the School of the Visual Arts in New York and has also taught at the Medill Graduate School of Journalism in Chicago. He has spoken about storytelling and photojournalism as a public speaker on television, radio, and at several sold-out crowds in the Chicago area, such as Chicago Ideas Week, Printers Row Book Fest, a TedX Midwest Salon, and the House of Blues.
