Chip Cooper Illustrator & Author

Chip Cooper is a current artist in residence from the Fototeca de Cuba for the City of Havana and artist in residence in the Honors College at the University of Alabama. He is the author, coauthor, and/or photographer of several photography books, including Hunting: The Southern Tradition, Alabama Memories, Silent in the Land, Common Threads: Photographs and Stories from the South, Crimson: The University of Alabama,Tin Man: Charlie Lucas, and Old Havana: Spirit of the Living City/La Habana Vieja: El espíritu de la ciudad viva. A past recipient of an artist fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, Cooper’s work has been recognized both nationally and internationally and is held in many museums and in private and corporate collections.
 
Julio Larramendi is a research associate for the National Museum of Natural History of Cuba, a professor and visiting artist in residence at the University of Alabama’s Honors College, and the editorial director of Ediciones Polymita. He was the founder and first president of the department of Latin American photography at the José Martí International Institute of Journalism. His work has been featured in more than fifty books. Larramendi has had more than one hundred solo exhibitions and sixty group exhibits across thirty countries and various Cuban cities, and he is the recipient of more than a dozen international awards.