Origins & Displacements by William Camargo
Origins & Displacements by William Camargo
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"Origins & Displacements traces the 7-year photographic practice of Anaheim-based William Camargo, unearthing its roots in Brown histories and lived experiences. Camargo’s photographs, interspersed with institutional records and archives of city-sanctioned segregation and exploitation, reveal the mundane and, in turn, invisible nature of embedded colonization in the streets of Southern California. Through his abject confrontation of this subject matter, Camargo’s voice does not falter – whether it be through his photographic work, their quippy titles, such as “We Gunna Have to Move Out Soon Fam!” countering displacement and gentrification, or through conversations with his colleague and good friend Zora J. Murff, unpacking the faults of photographic histories towards bodies of color. Also included is an essay by Gloria N. Negrete, a dear friend of the artist, also raised in Anaheim, Calif."
—written by curator Alexa Ramirez Posada.
William Camargo is a photo-based artist and educator born and raised in Anaheim, California. He is a photography lecturer at the University of California San Diego and Cal State Fullerton. He attained his M.F.A from Claremont Graduate University, a BFA from Cal State Fullerton, and an AA at Fullerton Community College. William is the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives, an archive Instagram page that elevates communities of color through family photos. He uses photography, installation, public interventions, and archives to address gentrification, police violence, and Chicanx/Latinx histories. William has residencies at the Latinx Project at NYU, Light Work in Syracuse, NY, TILT Institute for Contemporary Image in Philadelphia, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, and Penumbra Foundation, NYC.
William's work has been exhibited and published internationally, including The Cheech Center for Chicano Art, Frost Museum of Art, and Princeton Museum of Art. His works have been published in Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and others. His works are in several public and private collections, including the Huntington Library, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Los Angeles Museum of Art.
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