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Alex Garcia is a Chicago photographer whose twenty-year career has spanned several countries and continents. At the Chicago Tribune, he has earned international accolades for his work, leading HarperCollins to call him "one of the world's best photojournalists."
Garcia shares a Pulitzer Prize with the staff of The Chicago Tribune, 2001, for coverage of gridlock at O'Hare Airport. He also received a Golden Eye - 1st Place award from the World Press Photo contest in Amsterdam, the world's most prestigious photography contest. Prior to joining the Chicago Tribune, his previous position was on staff at The Los Angeles Times, where he photographed national figures, celebrities and documentary projects. Garcia has won Illinois Photographer of The Year from the Illinois Press Photographers Association. He has also won numerous national and state awards.
Among his book credits, Chicago photographer Alex Garcia was selected to participate in the largest professional photo book project ever undertaken "America 24/7". He had three photos published from among the million photos submitted by more than 1000 participating photographers. He was also one of 125 photojournalists in the country chosen for the special book project "A Day in the Life of the U.S. Armed Forces". He participated in the "America At Home", a collaborative book project involving only 100 professional photographers among thousands of amateurs.
Garcia has a personal interest in Cuba,
the island of his heritage. Over the past fifteen years he has spent close to a year in the country - including a few months as a photographer for the first U.S. newspaper to open a permanent bureau on the island.
Garcia has lectured widely, including at several universities, where he has taught workshops on creative location portraits lighting techniques and personal vision.
He maintains a photo blog of his work at the Chicago Tribune called "Assignment Chicago". The photo advice found on his blog is currently reverse-published in the Chicago Tribune every week.
He lives in the Chicago area with his wife, Laura Husar Garcia, a freelance picture editor
and photographer.
All images on this site, unless otherwise stated, are copyright the photographer and may not be used for any purpose without his expressed, written consent.
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