Tony Chirinos, a photography professor at Kendall Campus, was selected as a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow in the photography category on April 6.
The fellowships, which award an average of 30,000 to $45,000, are given to those who have demonstrated exceptional creative ability in the arts.
“It still hasn’t hit me,” said Chirinos, who will use the grant to fund a photography project on the stories behind people’s scars. “I can not believe I am at that level with all the people I have admired and studied for so long.”
Chirinos worked as the director of biomedical photography at Miami Children’s Hospital and Baptist Hospital from 1989 to 2001. Two years later, he began his tenure as a photography professor at Kendall Campus.
The 57-year-old earned a master’s of fine arts degree in 2003 from Columbia University in New York City.
