{{short description|American photographer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}} {{Use American English|date=June 2023}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2009}}
'''Wyatt Gallery''' is an American photographer.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130924213408/http://brooklyn.ny1.com/content/news/188223/book-compiles-photographers--iphone-shots-during-sandy "Book Compiles Photographers' IPhone Shots During Sandy"]</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2011/07/wyatt-gallery-presents-tent-life-haiti/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928215401/http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2011/07/wyatt-gallery-presents-tent-life-haiti/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 28, 2013|title=Wyatt Gallery presents Tent Life: Haiti|website=arcthemagazine.com|publisher=|author=Holly Bynoe|date=17 July 2011|access-date=7 September 2016}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Born in Philadelphia, he now lives between New York City and Trinidad & Tobago.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bio2014|url=https://www.wyattgallery.com/ABOUT/Bio/1/caption|access-date=2021-06-18|website=Wyatt Gallery ... A Person Not A Place|language=en}}</ref> Gallery graduated high school from the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia in 1993.<ref name="penncharter.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.penncharter.com/page.cfm?p=2792&newsid=74|title=Wyatt Gallery to Share Haiti Experience|website=penncharter.com|publisher=|date=17 February 2011|access-date=7 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="chestnuthilllocal.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.chestnuthilllocal.com/2015/07/16/hills-gallery-opens-unique-jewish-treasures-exhibit/|title=Hill's Gallery opens unique 'Jewish Treasures' exhibit|date=16 July 2015|website=chestnuthilllocal.com|publisher=|access-date=7 September 2016}}</ref> He has a BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he received the Daniel Rosenberg Fellowship in 1997.<ref name="penncharter.com"/> He received a Fulbright Fellowship in Trinidad in 1999.<ref name="chestnuthilllocal.com" />
== Work == Gallery has produced a variety of photo series in various Caribbean nations. He frequently documents many places following natural disasters, such as New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Haiti following a 2010 earthquake. These works have contributed to relief funds for the local communities.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-04-12|title=After Catastrophe, Photographs To Help Rebuild|url=https://www.popphoto.com/american-photo/after-catastrophe-photographs-help-rebuild/|access-date=2021-06-18|website=Popular Photography|language=en-US}}</ref>
Gallery, along with Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, and Michelle Woo, founded For Freedoms in 2016. It is an "artist-led platform... dedicated to impacting collective change through civic engagement, discourse, and direct action."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cardwell|first=Erica|date=2020-10-02|title=For Freedoms's Campaigns to Bring Creativity into Politics Are More Relevant than Ever|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-freedomss-campaigns-bring-creativity-politics-relevant|access-date=2021-09-21|website=Artsy|language=en}}</ref> Gallery was the "Billboard Director" for a For Freedoms project in which they placed artist designed billboards around the United States ahead of the mid term elections in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-10-15|title='All art is political': behind America's most ambitious public art project ever|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/15/50-state-initiative-behind-americas-most-ambitious-public-art-project-ever|access-date=2021-09-21|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== Gallery married his long-time girlfriend and Miss Universe 2008 contestant, Anya Ayoung-Chee, in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.looptt.com/content/anya-and-wyatt-tie-knot|title=Anya and Wyatt tie the knot|website=www.looptt.com|language=en|access-date=2018-08-18}}</ref> Following the theft and release of their private sex tape in 2009, they ceased to appear in public together for some time, but continued dating. They have a son, Kaïri Pilar Gallery, who was born on July 3, 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.looptt.com/content/its-boy-meet-anya-ayoung-chees-son-kairi|title=It's a boy: meet Anya Ayoung-Chee's son, Kaïri|website=www.looptt.com|language=en|access-date=2018-08-18}}</ref>
== Bibliography ==
* Gallery, Wyatt, Stanley Mirvis, and Jonathan D. Sarna. ''Jewish treasures of the Caribbean : the legacy of Judaism in the New World''. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2016. ISBN 978-0764350955
* Gallery, Wyatt, Sean Corcoran, and Eddie Brannan. ''Sandy : seen through the iPhones of acclaimed photographers''. Hillsborough, N.C: Daylight, 2014. ISBN 978-0988983175
* Gallery, Wyatt, and Edwidge Danticat. ''Tent life : Haiti''. Brooklyn, N.Y. Minneapolis, Minn: Umbrage Editions Distributed by Consortium, 2010. ISBN 978-1884167478
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[https://www.wyattgallery.com/ Official site]
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