MiamiPhotoFest and Burn Books bring you the opportunity to participate in a unique experience with featured MiamiPhotoFest - Burn Books artist Maria Daniel Balcazar and founder David Alan Harvey.
David and Maria will discuss their lastest Burn Book Release. Your host will be Burn Books co-founder, David Alan Harvey. David will discuss their book projects. Participants will gain great insight into the world of photography book publishing in general.
The talk will be followed by an audiance Q&A session for answers to all your questions.
David Alan Harvey, Born in San Francisco and raised in Virginia. He discovered photography at the age of 11. Harvey purchased a used Leica with savings from his newspaper route and began photographing his family and neighborhood in 1956.
When he was 20 he lived with and documented the lives of a black family living in Norfolk, Virginia, and the resulting book, Tell It Like It Is, was published in 1966. He was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association in 1978.
Harvey went on to shoot over forty essays for National Geographic magazine. He has covered stories around the world, including projects on French teenagers, the Berlin Wall, Maya culture, Vietnam, Native Americans, Mexico and Naples, and a recent feature on Nairobi.
He has published two major books, Cuba and Divided Soul, based on his extensive work on the Spanish cultural migration into the Americas, and his book Living Proof (2007) deals with hip-hop culture.
His work has been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Nikon Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Workshops and seminars are an important part of his life.
Harvey is founder and editor of the award-winning Burn magazine, featuring iconic and emerging photographers in print and online.
His latest books, (based on a true story) and Tell It Like It Is, were published by BurnBooks.
Harvey joined Magnum as a nominee in 1993 and became a full member in 1997. He lives in NC and NYC.
Maria Daniel Balcazar is a Bolivian-American documentary and fine art photographer. Her projects focus on the universality of traditions and symbols, the vitality of syncretism, and the beauty and the extraordinary in daily life. She has studied painting, communication, languages, and photography. Her work has been exhibited in Galleries, Museums, andin Universities in Bolivia, Peru, Brazil, and the United States.
