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Nuevo Santander
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JOEL SALCIDO Joel Salcido first began working professionally in photography as an intern for the El Paso Times in 1979. After graduating from the University of Texas at El Paso he was hired as staff photographer for the newspaper in 1981. Three years later, in 1985, the El Paso Press Club honored him with the Dorrance D. Roderick Distinguished Service Award for a special section on the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico. The anthropological piece documented the Indians and their fragile existence in the Sierra Madre Occidental. The work was exhibited in two separate museums in El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico.At about the same time, he covered the Mexico earthquake and was assigned to cover the Pan Am Games in Indiana for USA Today and Gannett News Service. Soon after, he was selected by USA Today to be part of an advance team of writers and photographers to cover Mexico, Central America, South America and Cuba. The resulting work was published in 1988 in a book titled, Windows on the World. At the end of this project he remained in Washington, DC as a photo editor intern at USA Today. Upon his return to El Paso Times, he embarked on a special project titled, "Spooks," a section dealing with the inhalant abuse problem in El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. This work received the "Best of Show" award from the New Mexico Associated Press Managing Editors in 1990. His last work for the El Paso Times was completed in 1991 in Cuba. There, as part of a team of three journalists, he documented the political and social transitions of the last Communist stronghold in the Americas. For this work he received first place honors in photojournalism from the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. In 1991 Salcido left the El Paso Times to pursue commercial and editorial photography. Eight years later he left his native El Paso to work and live in Spain. Currently, Joel Salcido is an editorial and fine art photographer based in Austin and produces work for galleries and publications like USA Today, Texas Monthly, and Texas Highways.
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