Maximo Tejada

Photographer

Maximo Tejada’s passion for photography began in the 1980’s when he attended a photography course offered by the medical doctor and photographer Marcel Morel. At this event held in El Centro de la Cultura de Santiago, Maximo won first place in the color photography category.

In 1991, Maximo graduated in TV Production from the Center for the Media Arts in New York City. As a result of becoming more interested in digital photography, he traveled to Montana in 2005 to attend a course in photoshop held at Rocky Mountain School of Photography.

He has participated in various collectives in his homeland of Santiago, Dominican Republic as well as in the United Stated. Mr. Tejeda is an active member of the photography club Grupo Fotografico de Santiago (GRUFOS) in Santiago and the Alliance of Dominican American Visual Artists (ADAVA) in New York City. In April 2007, He won Honorable Mention in the Homenaje a la Ancianidad contest organized by the nursing home San Vicente de Paul held in the Centro de Leon de Santiago, Dominican Republic.

The year 2008 was a busy one for Maximo. He was selected as a finalist in the magazine , Photographer’s Forum, Best of College contest. He was also publish in Republica Dominicana en Imagenes, a book about the natural beauty, architecture, and the people of Dominican Republic. In June, he graduated from the Hallmark Institute of Photography located in Turners Falls Massachusetts. He participated in a fundraising benefit for Doctors Without Borders in which he established a record of more copy sold for that benefit. Maximo is also honored to have two of his images placed in the permanent collection of the Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography in Massachusetts.

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