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Ron Tarver

Ronald (Ron) Tarver (born 1957) is an American artist and educator. He was the first Black photographer at the ''Muskogee Phoenix'' and also worked at the ''Springfield News-Leader'' in Missouri (1980-1983), before joining ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. His career at the ''Inquirer'' in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, spans more than three decades (1983–2014). Tarver currently serves as Associate Professor of Art specializing in photography at Swarthmore College.

Tarver has documented issues ranging from heroin addiction to Black cowboys to African American veterans. Tarver's photoseries ''The Badlands: In the Grip of Drugs'' earned Third Prize in the Daily Life category of the World Press Photo Awards in 1993. Other major projects include photography book [https://www.amazon.com/Long-Ride-Home-Cowboys-America/dp/1960521020 ''The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America''] (2024), ''The Long Ride Home: The Black Cowboy Experience in America'', a nationwide project on Black cowboys, and the book ''We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans'' (2004), a collaboration with writer Yvonne Latty. In 2012, Tarver earned a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service as part of a team reporting on racialized school violence in the Philadelphia public school system. Provided by Wikipedia