The Puerto Rican icon photographed ahead of the release of his album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
A Together Project
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Expedition to find out why had immigrants, pirates, seekers and pilgrims been drawn for centuries to the treacherous shores of Mona Island.
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How Barbados became the arguable center of a global push for slavery reparations.
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A look into the culture of the homecoming tradition of Mums for data driven documentary series.
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Global average temperatures have risen so rapidly—already 1°C since the beginning of the industrial era—that the very existence of these nations in the Pacific is in doubt.
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A look into the Compton Cowboys for data driven documentary series.
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“We see this oil discovery as almost like providence, we’ve been given a second chance to get things right.”
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Two families, their lawyer and the quest for ancestral riches that may not exist.
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His most recent project, Las Carpetas, reimagines political memory in his home of Puerto Rico by retrieving, photographing, and appropriating documents from a secret police division that surveilled and persecuted citizens for their political beliefs. As Aperture Magazine noted, “Gregory-Rivera’s work offers the opportunity for us to consider the record of political persecution and to imagine new ways of healing and moving forward.”
The book El Gobierno Te Odia (The Government Hates You), based on the project, won Best First Photobook at PhotoEspaña 2024, was shortlisted for the Paris Photo/Aperture Prize in 2023, and shortlisted for Best Image/Text Book at Rencontres d’Arles.
In 2025, Gregory Rivera founded the Instituto de Observación Colectiva, an initiative supporting lens-based artists, documentarians, and archival practitioners working with Puerto Rican history, identity, and collective memory.
He is also one half of the creative duo Together, and works between New York, Madrid, and San Juan.
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Are.na
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo,
San Juan, PR
Derby, UK
Smack Mellon,
Brooklyn, NY
Hidrante Gallery,
San Juan, PR
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo,
San Juan, PR
Magnum Foundation,
New York, NY
Maine Institute of Contemporary Art,
Portland, ME
Abrons Art Center,
New York, NY
Espacio Publica,
San Juan, PR
*Solo Show
PhotoEspaña
Rencontres Arles Prix du Livre
Aperture/Paris Photo Book Award
Penumbra Foundation
Magnum Foundation
World Press Photo
& Artist Talks
Interview
Artist Talk
Exhibition Review
Artist Talk
Aperture x Magnum Foundation
Aperture Magazine Portfolio
Interview
Adaptation of Las Carpetas, WNYC
Artist Talk
Reading The Pictures
The New York Times
National Geographic Magazine Google
The New Yorker
Boomberg Businessweek
Rolling Stone
Saks 5th Avenue
A&E Networks
Apple
ACLU Magazine
GQ
Dickies
Aguïta
The New York Times Magazine
Bon Appetite
Mellon Foundation
The Wall Street Journal
El País Semanal
Genius
NPR
By appropriating images from the secret police archive, the manual they supplied their officers on how to watch as well as present day surveillance footage; the book recontextualizes largely forbidden and forgotten political history in Puerto Rico.
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Rescuing a never before seen state surveillance archive, it reconstructs the visual history of one of the longest continuous surveillance programs on US citizens by their own government. From the 1940’s until 1987 a secret police unit was tasked with politically persecuting those advocating for independence from the US, feminists, labor organizations and environmental activists under the guise of national security.
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A collaborative archive of a community at risk as well as a lyrical meditation through the people and architecture of El Caño Martín Peña for us all to learn— maybe— to
find home.
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Based on a family archive this work is a portrait of the emotional and mnemonic contours of physical spaces separated by 60 years of time.
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Tracing the Panoramic Route on the island as allegory to evaluate what role “progress” has played in Puerto Rico and how this imposed notion of the American Dream became central to the identity as well as political culture of the island in the post-war period.
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