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Edwin Pagán

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My biggest lesson as a visual artist—and the one that's proven to be the most valuable in my lifetime—has been transforming my creative abilities to 'see' rather than merely just 'look.'

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Edwin Pagán is a first generation Nuyorican born in NYC's Lower East Side (Loisaida) and raised in The Bronx. He is a multidisciplinary artist whose work centers around photography, filmmaking, sound and graphic design. He was introduced to the arts at age 11 at the Hoe Avenue Boys & Girls Club, which led to his extensive careers in photography and filmmaking. Pagán's body of work is an intimate and humane look at the cultural idiosyncrasies of inner-city communities from an “insider’s point-of-view.”

He is co-founding member of the Seis del Sur collective, composed of photojournalists and documentary photographers who have documented the South Bronx for more than four decades.

More recently, Pagán has harnessed his creative skills to create interactive multimedia installations that take as a point of departure the same themes he’s explored in his photographic work.

Selected Artworks

Edwin Pagán. SUMMERTIME, Mott Haven, 1989. Image courtesy of the artist.
Edwin Pagán. TINY DANCER, Spanish Harlem (La Marqueta), 2014. Image courtesy of the artist.
Edwin Pagán. JUSTICE FOR ANTHONY BÁEZ, South Bronx, 1995. Image courtesy of the artist.

Resources

Edwin Pagán’s THROWBACK is a documentary photo essay that focuses on the resiliency of urban communities who have prevailed and thrived beyond their environments in the South Bronx, Spanish Harlem (El Barrio), and the Lower East Side (Loisaida).

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