José A. Alvarado Jr.

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Location: New York

Nationality: Puerto Rican American

Biography: José A. Alvarado Jr. (b.1989) is a Puerto Rican photographer dedicated to documenting class inequality, civic engagement, and contemporary issues in Puerto Rico and New York City. He works primarily in long-form storytelling, using visual... read on

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New York City, New York — October 14, 2020: In early March as the peak of COVID-19 overwhelmed New York City, Rochester native and Brooklyn local, Lea Polizzi, 24, was laid off from her job as a nanny. After a sequence of troublesome months searching for work in a dormant city, Polizzi resorted to constructing masks and selling them online to make ends meet. CREDIT: José A. Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times

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New York City, New York — October 3, 2020: Sylvia Chavez, a parent of two and student at City Tech working toward her associate’s degree in construction management, with her two children, with her son Noah Chavez-Giler, 9, and her daughter Allison Chavez-Giler, 3, in Parque de los Niños in the Bronx borough of New York City. As students across the county begin the challenging process of returning to school, many are still hesitant to return to in-class gatherings due to the concern of COVID-19’s growing rate of transmission. CREDIT: José A. Alvarado Jr. for The New York Times

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New York City, New York — June 19, 2020: Protestors march from Brooklyn to Seneca Village in Manhattan’s Central Park during the Juneteenth holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. Demonstrations have swept across all fifty as protestors have taken to the streets to express their anger and frustration with the ongoing systemic problems impacting many of the Black community and law enforcement that police them. CREDIT: José A. Alvarado Jr.

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Portrait of Robert Sanganoo Jr., a thirty-year-old resident of the Bronx that was diagnosed with Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis in his early twenties. CREDIT: José A. Alvarado Jr.

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Portrait of political candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after her first public speech where declared her run for office. Rockville Center, New York, June 2017

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Protestors take to the streets of Manhattan to mourn the death of George Floyd who died in the hands of police and to express their displeasure with police brutality, systemic racism, and the use of excessive force by law enforcement to those of Black community, New York City, New York, U.S., June 2, 2020. Photographed by José A. Alvarado Jr.

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New York City, New York— August 6, 2020: Hannah Lane, 24, was recently laid off from her server position at a restaurant in Gramercy back in March, only to be rehired back this past June and then once again being laid off four days later, leaving her to ration what money remains on rent and rice and beans to eat. After a challenging start to the summer, many individuals from New York City to Tampa Bay, Florida, and everywhere in between are still struggling to keep a consistent income even as many states have pushed through mandates to help reopen much of the business sectors of their economies. CREDIT: José A. Alvarado for The New York Times

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José A. Alvarado Jr. for Haymaker Industries x The Immigration Hub

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Portrait of Alexander Cecil McNab at the Barnard College, Columbia University in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, April 16, 2019. NYTIMES/José Alvarado Jr.

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Sarah Hughes, Theatre Rows newly appointed Director of Artistic Programming, stands for a portrait in the Off-Broadway complex in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York. Jose Alvarado Jr. for The Wall Street Journal.

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New York City, New York — June 6, 2020: Protestors gather at Washington Square Park in the Manhattan borough of New York City before participating in a protest to honor the late George Floyd who died in the hands of Minneapolis Police in late May. Demonstrations have swept across all fifty as protestors have taken to the streets to express their anger and frustration with the ongoing systemic problems impacting many of the Black community and law enforcement that police them. CREDIT: José A. Alvarado Jr.

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New York City, New York — June 12, 2020: Protestors march over the Williamsburg Bridge into the Manhattan borough of New York City as they participate in a protest to honor the late George Floyd who died in the hands of Minneapolis Police in late May. Demonstrations have swept across all fifty as protestors have taken to the streets to express their anger and frustration with the ongoing systemic problems impacting many of the Black community and law enforcement that police them. CREDIT: José A. Alvarado Jr.

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NYPD Deputy Inspector Stewart Loo of the Asian Hate Crime Task Force at his office in the Manhattan 13th Precinct, New York City, New York, U.S., September 29, 2020. In August, the NYPD created the Asian Hate Crime Task Force in response to the increasing numbers of hate crime cases toward Asians and Asian-Americans. CREDIT: José A. Alvarado Jr. for The Wall Street Journal

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Jamaal Bowman, founder and first principal of the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action (CASA) a public school located in the north-eastern neighborhood, Baychester in the Bronx, speaks to a crowd of 90-110 people during a rally organized by The Young Turks’ founder Cenk Uygur, with the goal to help organize local progressive activists with the tools and literature to help educate their communities in New York City and greater New York area, at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, September 9, 2019. Bowman has taken a page out of the Bronx Progressive Democrats playbook after announcing his official run for office on June 18th of 2019, where he will be running his insurgent campaign to unseat the 30 year veteran democrat Eliot Engel in the NY-16 Democratic Congressional District, a district that occupies a portion of the Bronx and Westchester County.

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José A. Alvarado Jr. for Haymaker Industries x The Immigration Hub

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Eladio Burgos, 77, sits for a portrait as he waits for customers at his one seat barbershop on Suydam Avenue in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

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Richard Rosenblum a former commodities trader and global head of oil derivatives trading for Goldman Sachs, stands for a portrait in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. Richard is part of the new trend of ex-Wall Street traders driving exotic bitcoin derivatives on the market.Jose Alvarado Jr. for The Wall Street Journal.

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New York City, New York — July 15, 2020: Anti-police brutality protestors share their frustration with protestors standing for Blue Lives Matter outside of Occupy City Hall. As the summer season continues and New York City experiences a rise in gun violence the relationship between the public and law enforcement continues to wain. CREDIT: José A. Alvarado Jr.

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Credits: josé a. alvarado jr.

Date of Work: 01/01/17 - Ongoing

Updated: 10/26/20

Location: New York City

Archived as: Abstract, Black and White, Celebrity, Documentary, Editorial, Essays, Landscape, Music, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Sports, Spotlight, Street, Wildlife

A New York native, José A. Alvarado Jr. (b. 1989) is a Puerto Rican documentary photographer, currently based in New York City. His personal work consists of documenting sub-cultures, politics, and the relationship between Puerto Rico and the US. He speaks both English and Spanish. His work has been published by:

The New York Times LENS, VICE, The Intercept, Vanity Fair, VIEW/STERN, Broadly, Glamour, and others. He is available for reportage, portrait, or general news assignments domestically or internationally.