Ron Tarver

Ron Tarver was born in Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma in 1957. He received a B.A. in Journalism and Graphic Arts at Northeastern Oklahoma State University. He has been on staff at the Philadelphia Inquirer 18 years earning honors from the National Society of Professional Journalists, the National Press Photographers Association/University of Missouri Pictures of the Year competition, World Press Photo Awards, and other state and regional awards. He has received fellowships and a grant from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and the National Geographic Society respectively and in 1997 he was named one of the Delaware Valley's "50 Rising Stars in the Arts" by Seven Arts Magazine. Tarver's photographs has been exhibited both nationally and internationally and are in many corporate, private and museum collections including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC and the State Museum in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Corporate collections include Banana Republic, Johnson and Johnson, Hyatt and Sheraton Hotels.

Ron Tarver Images:
Shack and Barn
Three Silos
Two Barns