Ron Tarver

Ronald (Ron) Tarver (an haife shi a shekara ta 1957) ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne na Amurka kuma malami . Shi ne bakar hoto na farko a Muskogee Phoenix kuma ya yi aiki a Springfield News-Leader a Missouri (1980-1983), kafin ya shiga The Philadelphia Inquirer . Ayyukansa a Inquirer a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ya wuce fiye da shekaru talatin (1983-2014). A halin yanzu Tarver yana aiki a matsayin Mataimakin Farfesa na Art wanda ya kware a ɗaukar hoto a Kwalejin Swarthmore . 

Tarver ya rubuta batutuwan da suka kama daga jarabar tabar heroin  zuwa Black kaboyi zuwa tsoffin sojojin ƙasar Amurka na Afirka.  Hotunan Tarver The Badlands: In the Grip of Drugs ya sami lambar yabo ta uku a cikin rukunin rayuwar yau da kullun na lambar yabo ta Hotuna ta Duniya a shekarar 1993.  Sauran manyan ayyuka sun hada da littafin daukar hoto The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America (2024), The Long Ride Home: The Black Cowboy Experience in America, wani aikin kasa baki daya akan Black cowboys, da kuma littafin da muka kasance a can: Voices of African American Veterans (2004), haɗin gwiwa tare da marubuci Yvonne Latty . A cikin 2012, Tarver ya sami lambar yabo ta Pulitzer don Sabis na Jama'a a matsayin wani ɓangare na ƙungiyar da ke ba da rahoton tashin hankalin makaranta a cikin tsarin makarantun jama'a na Philadelphia. 

 Rayuwa da aiki 
An haifi Tarver a Fort Gibson, Oklahoma . Tsabar sha'awar rayuwarsa ta ɗaukar hoto mahaifinsa ne ya shuka shi, wani ƙwararren mai daukar hoto ne wanda ya rubuta yawancin al'ummar Baƙar fata a Fort Gibson.  Tarver ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Jihar Arewa maso Gabas kuma ba da daɗewa ba bayan kammala karatun ya hayar a matsayin mai ɗaukar hoto na farko na Baƙar fata a Muskogee Phoenix .  A cikin 1980, Tarver ya sami matsayi a Springfield News-Leader a Missouri  inda ya yi aiki har zuwa shekarar 1983. A wannan shekarar, an ɗauke shi aiki a matsayin mai daukar hoto a The Philadelphia Inquirer . A lokacin 32-shekara stint a The Philadelphia Inquirer, Tarver ta aiki ya kai daga tsawaita rubuce-rubucen hoto a kan sakamakon yakin Beirut  zuwa rikice-rikice a cikin cocin Katolika a Ireland. 

A cikin shekarar 1992, Tarver ya ɗauki hoton cutar tabar heroin da ta addabi al'ummomi a Arewa maso Gabas Philadelphia a cikin jerin masu taken The Badlands: In the Grip of Drugs  wanda ya haifar da kukan jama'a da martani daga sashen 'yan sanda na Philadelphia. Daga baya World Press Photo Awards ta gane labarin a cikin 1993,  yana samun lambar yabo ta uku a rukunin Rayuwa ta yau da kullun. A ƙarshen aikin Badlands, Tarver ya fara rubuta gungun kaboyi na birni a Arewacin Philadelphia . Wannan ƙarshe ya faɗaɗa zuwa wani shiri na ƙasa baki ɗaya akan Black Cowboys mai suna The Long Ride Home: The Black Cowboy Experience a Amurka . Ya zarce daga California zuwa Illinois zuwa Texas tare da tallafi daga Tallafin Ci gaban Ƙasa na Ƙasa.  

A cikin shekarar 2002, Tarver ya ɗauki hoto 28 Tsohon sojan Ba-Amurke don littafin Muna nan: Muryoyin Tsohon Sojoji na Amurkawa, daga Yaƙin Duniya na II zuwa Yaƙin Iraki .  Wanda aka rubuta tare da Yvonne Latty, HarperCollins ne ya buga littafin a cikin shekarar 2004  kuma an nuna shi a Cibiyar Tsarin Mulki ta ƙasa. A cikin 2012, Tarver kuma yana cikin ƙungiyar masu tambaya da suka taru don bincikar tashin hankalin makaranta a cikin tsarin makarantun jama'a na Philadelphia. Daga baya labarin ya sami lambar yabo ta Pulitzer don hidimar jama'a..

Tarver ya bar mai tambaya a cikin shekarar 2014, yana neman MFA a Jami'ar Arts yayin koyar da ɗaukar hoto a Kwalejin Swarthmore.  A wannan lokacin, ya fara Tattaunawa da Babana, wani aikin da ya dace da kuma sake tunanin hotunan da mahaifinsa ya dauka a Oklahoma a cikin shekarar 1940s da 1950s. 

Shekaru ashirin bayan haka, an baje kolin zaɓaɓɓun hotuna daga Gidan Long Ride a matsayin wani ɓangare na nunin Black Cowboy  a Gidan Tarihi na Studio a Harlem a cikin 2016, wanda Amanda Hunt ya tsara. Manyan wallafe-wallafe kamar The New York Times,  Hyperallergic,  New Yorker  da <i id="mwnw">Mataimakin</i>  sun rubuta game da aikin.

An nuna aikin Tarver a cikin ƙasa da ƙasa a cikin fiye da 30 solo da 50 nunin nunin rukuni kuma an haɗa su a cikin tarin masu zaman kansu, kamfanoni, da gidajen kayan gargajiya, ciki har da Philadelphia Museum of Art,  Gidan Tarihi na Jihar Pennsylvania a Harrisburg, da Smithsonian American Art Museum a Washington DC. Ayyukansa suna wakiltar Robin Rice Gallery a New York, Soho-Myriad a Atlanta, Georgia, da Grand Image a Seattle, Washington. Tarver ya yi lacca a cibiyoyi daban-daban, ciki har da The Barnes Foundation,  Gidan Tarihi na Rosenbach, da Gidan Tarihi na Woodmere Art. Ya kuma koyar a Jami'ar Drury, Perkins Center for Arts, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, da kuma Princeton Photography Club.

 Labarai 

 Mawallafi, Gidan Dogon Ride: Black Cowboys a Amurka : George F. Thompson Publishing, 2024.  
 Marubucin tare da Yvonne Latty, Mun kasance a can: Muryoyin Tsohon Sojoji na Amurka, daga yakin duniya na biyu zuwa yakin Iraki, New York: HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN 978-0060542177 

 Kyauta 

 Shekarar 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship daga John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. don daukar hoto 
 2007 da 2019 Independence Foundation Fellowship 
 Kyautar Pulitzer ta 2012 don Sabis na Jama'a, a matsayin ɓangare na ƙungiyar da ke rufe tashin hankalin makaranta 
 2007 Fleisher Wind Kalubalen 
 2001 Pew Fellowship in Arts 
 1994 Mujallar National Geographic, Taimakon Ci Gaba don Ɗaukar Hoto
 1993 Sigma Delta Chi lambar yabo na Ƙungiyar Ƙwararrun 'Yan Jarida
 1993 Hoton Jarida ta Duniya, Kyauta ta Uku don Rayuwa ta Kullum 
 1992 Masu Ɗaukar Jarida na Ƙasa / Jami'ar Ƙungiyar Jami'ar Missouri Kyautar Hotuna na Shekara, Wuri na Uku

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Haihuwan 1957
Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane