Juan Madrid

Juan Madrid (he/they) is Wisdom Projects' Harper Fellow for Healing Arts named after the remarkable Baltimore-born teacher, poet, and activist, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911).

Juan is a photographer and book/zine artist originally from the Hudson Valley of New York with ancestral roots in El Salvador. 

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Juan earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Professional Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2013. Since then, he has worked as a digital lab manager at the Center for Photography at Woodstock from 2015 to 2018 while working as a freelance photographer for clients including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, VICE, Topic, Society Magazine (France), and Planned Parenthood.

Since 2020, Juan has worked in a kombucha brewery and a bakery, helping to grow his interest in food production, nutrition, and culinary arts. 

Alongside those jobs, Juan has helped found two different art collectives – Los Sumergidos and GAUCHE. Los Sumergidos is a publishing outlet focused on photographic artists from marginalized communities and the collective has won awards and been shortlisted multiple times for their publications. GAUCHE is a socially-engaged art collective focused on place making as a means towards fostering community and resisting oppressive ideologies.

Juan's photographic practice looks at place and space to consider his own history and to bring up ideas about inner and outer worlds and how people engage with their environments. Through publishing zines and books, Juan makes printed matter to engage with our material senses and develop photographic storytelling as a means of connecting the personal to the universal.

For more information, visit https://www.juanmadrid.com.

Image credit: Photo © Veronica Aracely Melendez

Juan Madrid (he/they) is Wisdom Projects' Harper Fellow for Healing Arts, a position named after the remarkable Baltimore-born teacher, poet, and activist, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911). This position was originally funded by the late educator and Wisdom Projects supporter, Dr. Drid Williams 

Renowned for his work on the East Coast of the United States, Juan is a photographer and book/zine artist originally from the Hudson Valley of New York with ancestral roots in El Salvador. 

An environmentalist and advid advocate for environmental justice, Juan helps leads Wisdom Projects' Planet Protectors Laboratories. 

Juan earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Professional Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2013. Since then, he has worked as a digital lab manager at the Center for Photography at Woodstock from 2015 to 2018 while working as a freelance photographer for clients including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, VICE, Topic, Society Magazine (France), and Planned Parenthood.

Since 2020, Juan has worked in a kombucha brewery and a bakery, helping to grow his interest in food production, nutrition, and culinary arts. 

Alongside those jobs, Juan has helped found two different art collectives – Los Sumergidos and GAUCHE. Los Sumergidos is a publishing outlet focused on photographic artists from marginalized communities and the collective has won awards and been shortlisted multiple times for their publications. GAUCHE is a socially-engaged art collective focused on place making as a means towards fostering community and resisting oppressive ideologies.

Juan's photographic practice looks at place and space to consider his own history and to bring up ideas about inner and outer worlds and how people engage with their environments. Through publishing zines and books, Juan makes printed matter to engage with our material senses and develop photographic storytelling as a means of connecting the personal to the universal.

For more information, visit https://www.juanmadrid.com.

Image credit: Photo © Veronica Aracely Melendez