Meet and Greet with Photographer Daniel Hernández Salazar
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Special Event
Meet Guatemalan photographer Daniel Hernández Salazar, who will be visiting William & Mary as part of the Spring 2025 Series on Arts & Democracy, co-sponsored by Arts & Sciences and the Reves Center for International Studies.
Hernández Salazar currently has several photographs on view at the Muscarelle. During this event, he’ll speak briefly about the works, followed by time for Q&A with guests. Enjoy light refreshments and an opportunity to get to know this artist better.
The following evening, April 10, Hernández Salazar will present the 2025 George Tayloe Ross Lecture.
About the Artist
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.
HERNANDEZ-SALAZAR, DANIEL | Guatemalan, born 1956 | Clarification: So That All Shall Know (Esclarecimiento: Para que Todos lo Sepan), 1997-1998 | Silver Gelatin print on fiber based paper | Acquired with funds from the Board of Visitors Muscarelle Museum of Art Endowment | 2021.039,4
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