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 *[[New York Times|The New York Times]]*,  *Hyperallergic*,  *New Yorker*  da **  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&nbsp; 

## 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

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