“Placekeeping expands on these earlier concepts and recognizes that having communities at the table when revitalization projects are being planned is key to growing urban environments that have a good chance of keeping displacement at bay,” Anthony Alvarez writes.
Anthony Alvarez
Anthony Alvarez is an artist, photographer, adjunct professor and commercial photographer. He is also a lecturer of arts, culture & media at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., and the assistant director for SHINE Portrait Studio at Express Newark. He is a Newark native who still lives in Newark with his wife and daughter. A graduate of Arts High School in Newark, he earned a BFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and an Ed. M in Adult Education with a certificate in Higher Education Teaching from Rutgers Graduate School of Education. Alvarez is a nationally recognized photographer whose fine art work has been exhibited in venues such as the Armory Show in NYC, Art Basel in Miami, and the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado.