Sharing the Spotlight: Jon Ferrer

When: Saturday, November 23, 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Where: Teatro LATEA @ The Clemente

Sharing the Spotlight is presented with support from Historias, a multi-year programmatic initiative led by The Clemente in partnership with LxNY and supported by the Rauschenberg Foundation. Historias charts the transformative impact of Latinx communities in NYC through research, artistic interpretations, and public engagement. 

Teatro LATEA and Historias are pleased to co-present Sharing the Spotlight, a conversation series by emerging Latinx artists/photographers to run in tandem with the Borimix exhibition Maximo Rafael Colón: Storied Lens. For this series, Colón has extended an invitation to a select group of Latino photographers to share the spotlight in a series of artist talks where they will present and discuss their work.

This event will be the second of the series, a talk by emerging artist, Jon Ferrer, discussing Ferrer’s photo practice, trajectory, and upcoming projects.

Jon Ferrer is a freelance photographer from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, N.Y. Jon has and will continue to shoot any genre of photography as long as there's an opportunity to learn, but his first love is for the streets of New York. Jon has been a part of multiple group showings with galleries such as Art on the Ave, The Muse Gallery, and La Sala de Pepe. He is a first-place winner of the 2024 Veterans Creative Arts Competition in multiple categories and had a successful solo photography exhibition this past summer.  Ferrer’s talk will be about a photographic journey through darkness and light. As a poor Hispanic child from a single-parent home who grew to be a combat war veteran, he has faced a good share of trauma. This is his perspective on the connection between art and mental health