My Cowboy - Limited Edition 10 of 25 Photograph

Art Photographer and author, Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte was born in Havana, Cuba. He left the island on the Freedom Flights in 1968 with his family & settled in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. His grandfather gave him his first camera at the age of ten & that sparked his love for photography. His professional career began in 1985 in Miami and in 1988 he moved to London, where he met Cuban music legend, Celia Cruz. He photographed her for 12 years & published a book titled, Presenting Celia Cruz in 2004. After London, Rodriguez-Duarte moved to New York’s Greenwich Village, where he’s lived with his husband and collaborator, Tico Torres for 25 years. His camera has taken him to many parts of the world & given him the opportunity to work for publications such as Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle China, Harper’s Bazaar Art China, The New Yorker, Town & Country, The New York Times, L’Uomo Vogue & the British, Spanish & German editions of Vogue Magazine, among others. It’s also allowed him to photograph some of the world’s leading artists, celebrities and public figures such as Andy Garcia, Madonna, Gloria Estefan, Gianni Versace, Carolina Herrera, Pedro Almodovar, Rossy de Palma, Chita Rivera, Jeff Koons, Christo, Ronald Lauder & Gloria Vanderbilt, among many others. He’s been an adjunct professor at the Int’l Center for Photography in NY and has participated on a panel at the Smithsonian Institution titled, American Voices, Latino Photographers in the US where his images were included in an exhibit titled, Americanos, Latino Life in the US which traveled nationwide. His photos of Celia were included in another Smithsonian exhibition titled, Azúcar, the Life and Music of Celia Cruz, which he spearheaded & conceived starting at the National Museum of American History and also traveled nationwide. He was featured in a documentary film titled, Celia, the Queen. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Miami-Dade Public Library, Museum of Art & Design (Miami), Bronx Museum of the Arts, Lehigh Univ. Art Galleries, Bass Museum (Miami Beach), Lowe Art Musuem at University of Miami, Museum of the City of NY, Latino Museum (Omaha, NE), Casita Maria Ctr. for the Arts (Bronx), San Antonio Museum of Art, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum (London).