User:Nellykj88/Jorge Cruz

Jorge Cruz (born in Evanston, IL) is a queer Mexican American visual artist. Cruz attended Columbia College Chicago, where he learned about photography and undertook a passion for Graphic Design. At Columbia College he studied with Colleen Plumb, Melissa Ann Pinney, Curtis Mann, etc. Cruz is the creative director at the Chicago House label Trax Records, and is a contributing photographer and writer for URB Magazine.

Cruz comes from a large first generation Mexican American family, which he has been documenting for his series Living @ Home. Living @ Home is a series of color photographs that documents his families everyday life, but instead of it being purely documentary, the 35mm film captures a portrait-like aesthetic that is evident in a majority of his work. Cruz also used his mother as his subject for the series, Untitled.

Cruz's lesser known Graphic Design series " Story Of Eva" is a visual story of a photoshopped Eva Longoria living life in the United States as an Illegal Immigrant.

Cruz is currently living in the Chicagoland area.