Manuel rivera ortiz biography definition
Manuel rivera ortiz biography definition
Manuel rivera ortiz biography definition psychology.
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
Puerto Rican photographer
Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born December 23, 1968) is a stateside Puerto Ricanphotographer.[1][2][3] He is best known for his social documentary photography of people's living conditions in less developed nations.[4][5][6][7] Rivera-Ortiz lives in Rochester, New York, and in Zurich.
Life and work
Rivera-Ortiz was born into a poor family in the barrio of Pozo Hondo, outside Guayama on the Caribbean coast of Puerto Rico, the eldest of ten children (including four half-siblings and two stepsisters).[8] He grew up in a corrugated tin shack with dirt floors devoid of running water.[9][10] His father hand-chopped sugar cane in the fields of Central Machete and Central Aguirre in the declining days of the Puerto Rican sugar industry, and, following the Zafra or sugar-harvesting season, labored as a migrant farmworker in New England and the M