WILLIAMSBURG — Arts & Sciences and the Reves Center for International Studies at William & Mary will host Guatemalan photographer and human rights activist Daniel Hernández Salazar for a keynote address on April 10 at 5 p.m. in the Theater in Ewell Hall.
Daniel Hernández-Salazar currently works as the Official Photographer of Guatemala’s President Bernardo Arévalo De León. He also worked as a photojournalist for AFP, Reuters and the Associated Press during the Guatemalan Civil War. As a freelance journalist, he is interested in human subjects and historical memory, the university said.
Hernández-Salazar has shown his work in more than 35 solo exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Japan, and South Korea. He received the Jonathan Mann Prize in the Humanities (1998) and was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture (2005), leading to his promotion to Officer (2017).
His work is on permanent display at the Belgian Museum of the Holocaust and Human Rights, where he conceptualized his exhibition Genocide, the Silent Tragedy of Guatemala (2014).
The presentation is part of Spring 2025 Series on Arts & Democracy, co-sponsored by Arts & Sciences and the Reves Center for International Studies. The series features four artists whose practice aims to impact democratic processes, according to the university.
The presentation is free and open to the public.