Heriberto Quiroz

Photographer @ HOY NEWSPAPER/HOME OF THE CHILD/COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO / Based in Chicago IL

   Heriberto Timoteo Quiroz is a photojournalist and documentary photographer specialisng in deeped story telling. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the neighborhood of Pilsen. He received his B.A. in... read on
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   Heriberto Timoteo Quiroz is a photojournalist and documentary photographer specialisng in deeped story telling. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the neighborhood of Pilsen. He received his B.A. in photojournalism in May of 2015 from Columbia College Chicago. Heriberto’s work has been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Photography. In a group exhibition called, La Frontera  and Art Works Project, Sustenance: Chicago and the Food Chain.


    Over the past nine years Heriberto’s commitment to documenting social issues has drawn upon his own historical and cultural connections to his neighborhood. He has focused on recording the effects of gentrification by photographing "culture displacement” in the Pilsen neighborhood for a project tentatively titled The Place I Call Home.

His work seeks to capture why neighborhoods of America are facing displament. In The Place I Call Home, Heriberto photographs Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood  a majority Mexican neighborhood. Over the course of 10 years approxamily 10,000 Hispanic families left the neighborhood. The answer to this question is complex. Gentrifiying neighborhoods to improve the progress of a certain community has it's cons. In this ongoing project Heriberto will explore wheter gentrification can have negetive consequences.