To view my father’s photography, please visit thefrankespadagalleries.com
The notes and essays in this collection were written over the last decade, as I’ve prepared for events, and communicated with scholars, curators, and representatives from universities. In a few cases, I’ve included something just because it has a family story or two in it. Perhaps all together these will help someone who is interested to get a fuller idea of who my father was, along with his own writing, and his art, of course.
Updated March 2nd, 2025
Contents
The linked essays can be viewed on this site, accompanied by my father’s photographs, or read as text in the pdf.
2. The first thing you need to know about my father
4. A Sketch of of Frank Espada’s life
5. From Eugene Smith to Frank Espada
6. Two stories by Frank Espada
7. Opening remarks at the Tribute to Frank Espada, hosted by John Santos,
August 9th, 2015
8. Towards a Useful Definition of Latino Art
9. The Puerto Rican Diaspora – Documenting the Puerto Rican Experience in the 20th and 21st centuries
10. Reframing America’s Modern Day Colonialism – 2017
11. Puerto Rico Update – A Personal Reflection – 2019
12. Frank Espada’s Social Documentary Photography in the 1990’s
13. The Glory of the Good Fight
14. The barest outline of a Master
15. How things change
16. I Become We – A Confluence of Rivers
17. Twenty-three sixteen – a letter to the future
18. Questions from Carmen Ramos – with responses
19. Questions from Nicole Hernandez – with responses
20. Notes from an interview with Jason Espada
21. A letter from my father to his mother, 1988
22. A letter to students, 1996
23. On the process of darkroom printing
24. Stories – The Thread of Celebration
25. We Are Heirs to All This
Essays on the Frank Espada Archive