DIEGO MILIAN CHAVEZ

Diego Milián Chavez is a Cuban-American photographer and creator of visual narratives based in Hoboken, NJ. He is also a co-founder of the Atelier DF artist collective. Diego has been using photography as a story-telling device for over 30 years, creating shared experiences with viewers and focusing on the strength and criticality of community. Recording memories and creating assemblages culled from precise, decisive moments are central to Diego’s work. He has expanded into photo-collage where he is able to thread together disparate but cohesive images into a singular narrative.

Diego works across photographic mediums and processes, spanning from analogue film to digital image capture. He employs traditional photographic processes, alternative processes and digital post-processing. The aim is always to honor the captured image, the inherent story and narrative. Photography is a language to Diego, one that defies convention and has the capacity to be understood by all. As a young child of immigrant parents, photography enabled him to traverse the American landscape with the aid of a camera as a kind of passport conversing in the language of images as opposed to english or Spanish.

Diego’s work is in several private collections and his photography was featured in the Young Latino Artists group exhibit in Los Angeles, CA and the Los Angeles City College Art Show. IN 2021, he has participated in two group shows: “Sense of Self” at Snapdragon Art in Jersey City, NJ featured images from his “Huellas” series and “Connections” via Better Together Artists in London, UK. Atelier DF is a stalwart supporter of local arts and routinely participate in the Hoboken Studio Tour and in this year’s Hoboken Art Walk. Diego’s next exhibit is a solo show for his “The Hours Devour Us” at Main Street Pops Gallery at Pilsener Haus Wintergarten in Hoboken, NJ.