An art ex­hi­bi­tion of pho­tographs by Amer­i­can pho­tog­ra­ph­er Wy­att Gallery en­ti­tled Tent Life: Haiti, will be host­ed at Soft Box Stu­dios Gallery in St Clair, Port-of-Spain, from Ju­ly 22 through Au­gust 27. Gallery dis­cov­ered his love for pho­tog­ra­phy while at­tend­ing high school in Philadel­phia. He chose to fol­low his pas­sion and ma­jor in Pho­tog­ra­phy at the pres­ti­gious Tisch School of The Arts at New York Uni­ver­si­ty, where he re­ceived his BFA In 1997. In 1998, he be­gan trav­el­ling the Caribbean pho­tograph­ing spir­i­tu­al sites through a Rosen­berg grant.

Af­ter spend­ing a month in Trinidad, he knew he had to live here. He re­turned months lat­er on a Ful­bright Fel­low­ship and spent two years pho­tograph­ing the di­verse cul­tur­al his­to­ry of Trinidad seen through its re­li­gious places, land­scapes, peo­ple, and their homes.Gallery has since re­ceived nu­mer­ous awards such as the PDN 30, PDN An­nu­al, Amer­i­can Pho­tog­ra­phy, and 25 Un­der 25 Up-and-Com­ing Amer­i­can Pho­tog­ra­phers by Duke Uni­ver­si­ty. He was a pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia, and his work has been pub­lished in nu­mer­ous books and mag­a­zines such as Es­quire, the New York Times, Geo Sai­son, Moth­er Jones, and Afar, to name a few.

Gallery's pho­tographs have been ex­hib­it­ed through­out the world and are in ma­jor pri­vate and pub­lic col­lec­tions such as the Mu­se­um of Fine Arts in Hous­ton, the George East­man House, the New Or­leans Mu­se­um of Art, and Amer­i­can Ex­press. Gallery ded­i­cat­ed 2010 to pho­tograph­ing in Haiti and rais­ing aware­ness of the trag­ic liv­ing con­di­tions af­ter the earth­quake. He pub­lished his first mono­graph Tent Life: Haiti with Um­brage Edi­tions in 2011, which has won mul­ti­ple awards and sold out of the first edi­tion in three months.

Tent Life: Haiti has been ex­hib­it­ed in Um­brage Gallery, New York City, Pho­to­graph­ic Cen­ter north west, Seat­tle, Wash­ing­ton, and Col­lect­ed Works, San­ta Fe. It has al­so been fea­tured in the fol­low­ing pub­li­ca­tions and net­works; New York 1 TV News, Cur­rent TV, LIFE, Trav­el & Leisure, Es­quire Rus­sia, Chica­go Tri­bune, Pub­lish­er's Week­ly, PDN Pho­to Dis­trict News, Fla­vor­pill, The Morn­ing News, NY Art Beat and Bul­let mag­a­zine.