Camilo José Vergara

Camilo José Vergara is a New York City-based photographer known for documenting the poorest and most segregated communities in urban America, a 2002 MacArthur fellow and recently the first photographer to ever receive the National Humanities Medal. He is the author of many books including, "Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto," culled from 43 years of photographing in New York City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, December 2013).