Jorge Narvaez: Music, Photography, Writing

Jorge Narvaez is currently attending UCSD and finishing a bachelors of arts degree in ethnic studies, with an emphasis in visual arts/photography, literature and music. He remembers the first time he picked up a camera, and how interested he was in understanding the dynamics of the photographic frame. Furthermore, learning to grasp photographic conventions and how people, places, animals, and structures can be captured through this art medium to create a narrative for a story. Jorge has been shooting, writing and playing music independently for for more than 5 years. He is also interested in the social engagement of photography, including the emotional and psychological conditions of the subject matter in the image in relation to society. This can be found in any image from a family picture and the history behind it, to the symbolic smile of a bride in a wedding; they express a story. Jorge has been interning for Zea Mays Productions for almost two years in numerous projects including photographic documentary for Reality Changers, special events with theater group Izcalli, La Entrada Project, Rebuilding Together San Diego and other special events across southern California and Mexico. Jorge has also participated in photographic research through University of California San Diego’s McNair program where he is working on a project involving women’s identity and transborder culture. He has also participated in the Mexican Migration Research Program in which he traveled to Yucatan, Mexico with world-renowned professor Wayne Cornelius. He is an active member of the UCSD Art Collective as a photographer, and has presented his photographic work both on Chicana and university faculty identity in various spaces across UCSD and San Diego. Jorge has recently received the Chancellors Undergraduate Research Scholarship to continue some of his photographic projects. Most importantly he attends to his two beautiful daughters, which are his biggest inspiration to become a better human being. In the future Jorge plans to teach photography to first generation students and become a university professor of the visual arts.