About Gerard
Gerard H. Gaskin is a native of Trinidad and Tobago. As a freelance Photographer his work is widely published in newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad including: The New York Times, Newsday, Politiken, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Teen People, Caribbean Beat and Inc. Magazine. Additional clientele are record companies including Island, Sony and Def Jam records. Gaskin’s photographs have also been featured in solo and group exhibitions across the country and abroad including at the Duke University Gallery, African- American Museum in Philadelphia, The Brooklyn Museum; The Queens Museum of Arts; CM2A in Madrid, Spain; Galvanize in Port of Spain, Trinidad; Goethe-Institute Accra, Accra, Ghana; and Imagenes Havana: Fototeca de Cuba Habana Vieja, Cuba. His work is represented in the permanent collections at Duke University, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Museum of the City of New York and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Gaskin has won many important awards, grants and residences such as the 2012 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize, 2011, the Woodstock Center of Photography Arts-In-Residence, 2010 Light Work’s Arts-in-Residence in Syracuse, NY. 2005 he won the Queen Council on the Arts Individual Artists Initiative Award and in 2002 he was awarded The New York Foundation for the Arts Artist fellowship for Photography. He was also included in the “Gordon Parks’ 90” that brought together 90 of the top black photographers in United States to celebrate Gordon Parks’ 90th Birthday.