EP 32 • Gerard H. Gaskin
About Gerard
Gerard H. Gaskin is a native of Trinidad and Tobago. His book, Legendary: Inside the House and Ballroom Scene was published in 2013 by Duke University Press. As a freelance photographer, his work is widely published in newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad including The New York Times, Politiken, Black Enterprise, Ebony, and Teen People. Additional clientele is North Star Fund, Syracuse University, and Colgate University.
Gaskin’s photographs have also been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the country and abroad including at the Duke University Gallery, the African-American Museum in Philadelphia, the Brooklyn Museum, the Queens Museum of Arts, CM2A in Madrid, Spain, Goethe-Institute Accra, Ghana and Fototeca de Cuba Habana Vieja, Cuba.
His work is represented in the permanent collections at Duke University, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, the Museum of the City of New York, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Gaskin has won many important awards, grants, and residences such as the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize (2012), the Woodstock Center of Photography Arts-In-Residence (2011), Light Work’s Arts-in-Residence (2010). He was also included in the “Gordon Parks’ 90” that brought together 90 of the top black photographers in the United States to celebrate Gordon Parks’ 90th Birthday.
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Website: www.gerardhgaskinphoto.com
Where are you based? Jersey City
Camera Brand: Canon
Favorite Lens: 24-70mm 2.8f Canon zoom It's my workhorse
Most influential photographer from the past and the present day?
I am going to give you three names Roy DeCarava because he was my second teacher. Ernest Cole an amazing photographer from South Africa he has a book called "House of Bondage" and the person I wanted to be like Stanley Greene.
What do you consider the biggest hurdle for Black photographers today?
Racism
Which field of photography is the most diverse? Least diverse?
The Most diverse in Photojournalism, The Least diverse Fashion Photography.
