Wyatt Gallery

Wyatt Gallery is an American photographer.^[1][2]

Early life and education

Born in Philadelphia, he now lives between New York City and Trinidad & Tobago.^[3] Gallery graduated high school from the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia in 1993.^[4][5] He has a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he received the Daniel Rosenberg Fellowship in 1997.^[4] He received a Fulbright Fellowship in Trinidad in 1999.^[5]

Work

Gallery has produced a variety of photo series in various Caribbean nations. He frequently documents many places following natural disasters, such as New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Haiti following a 2010 earthquake. These works have contributed to relief funds for the local communities.^[6]

Gallery, along with Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, and Michelle Woo, founded For Freedoms in 2016. It is an "artist-led platform... dedicated to impacting collective change through civic engagement, discourse, and direct action."^[7] Gallery was the "Billboard Director" for a For Freedoms project in which they placed artist designed billboards around the United States ahead of the mid term elections in 2018.^[8]

Personal life

Gallery married his long-time girlfriend and Miss Universe 2008 contestant, Anya Ayoung-Chee, in 2018.^[9] Following the theft and release of their private sex tape in 2009, they ceased to appear in public together for some time, but continued dating. They have a son, Kaïri Pilar Gallery, who was born on July 3, 2018.^[10]

Bibliography

• Gallery, Wyatt, Stanley Mirvis, and Jonathan D. Sarna. Jewish treasures of the Caribbean : the legacy of Judaism in the New World. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2016. ISBN 978-0764350955

• Gallery, Wyatt, Sean Corcoran, and Eddie Brannan. Sandy : seen through the iPhones of acclaimed photographers. Hillsborough, N.C: Daylight, 2014. ISBN 978-0988983175

• Gallery, Wyatt, and Edwidge Danticat. Tent life : Haiti. Brooklyn, N.Y. Minneapolis, Minn: Umbrage Editions Distributed by Consortium, 2010. ISBN 978-1884167478