Edwin J. Torres

Edwin J. Torres is a photojournalist and documentary photographer born and raised in the South Bronx in New York. He is a member of GroundTruth's advisory board and was previously editor-at-large for GroundTruth's "Emerging Photographers" project.

In 2014, Edwin was one of the few visual artists chosen to attend the New York Times Lens Portfolio Review and LOOKbetween in Virginia. Edwin's work has been published in the New York Times, The Leica Blog, Curbed.com, Welcome2theBronx.com, Fototazo, and a few other publications.

He currently spends his time working on freelance assignments and his personal documentary projects. His personal work is concerned with telling his families' story about Puerto Rican diaspora and more broadly stories about inner city communities. He enjoys the use of the camera as a tool to communicate, meet others, and bring to light issues that have poor representation.

He is currently a staff photographer at the New York City Mayor's Office.

War and Peace

Remembering the Tulsa riots

Remembering the Tulsa riots: 'Racism is still alive' Brando West, 26, grew up in Chicago, Illinois, but has...

Nov 01, 2016

A New Light

Documenting everyday life around the world, one Instagram post at a time

A man carrying 7 children on a motorcycle in Kwara, Nigeria. (Tom Saater) A commercial bus station in...

Apr 21, 2016

A New Light

Portraits of Resilience: Puerto Rican millennials face economic meltdown with a spirit of pa’lante

Felix Rodriguez DeJesus, 21, is studying Architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University in Puerto Rico and is the...

Mar 01, 2016

Alberto Ramon, 20, came to Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic to join his father and found work as a barber. He plans to move to the United States as soon as he gets the opportunity. "It's better to go somewhere else than here," he says. "There's nothing. If customers used to come weekly, now they come monthly...Hopefully this year, God willing, I am going to the U.S." (Edwin Torres/GroundTruth)

A New Light

Rethinking the Future Amid an Economic Crisis: Portraits of Puerto Rico

Alberto Ramon, 20, came to Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic to join his father and found work...

Feb 01, 2016

Health

New Addiction

Buyers outside of the 149th street Deli in the Bronx call it “K” while others call it “Diablo”...

Oct 13, 2015