African-American veterans for the book We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq. Co-authored with Yvonne Latty, the book was published by HarperCollins in 2004 and exhibited at the National Constitution Center. In 2012, Tarver was also part of the Inquirer team assembled to investigate racialized school violence in the Philadelphia public school system. The story later won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Tarver left the Inquirer in 2014, pursuing an M.F.A at the University of Arts while teaching photography at Swarthmore College. During that time, he started An Overdue Conversation with My Father, a body of work that appropriates and reimagines the photographs taken by his father in Oklahoma in the 1940s and 1950s. Twenty years later, selected images from The Long Ride Home were exhibited as part of the Black Cowboy exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2016, curated by Amanda Hunt. Major publications like The New York Times, Hyperallergic, The New Yorker and Vice have since written about the work. Tarver's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in over 30 solo and 50 group exhibitions and is included in many private, corporate, and museum collections, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC. His work is represented by Robin Rice Gallery in New York, Soho-Myriad in Atlanta, Georgia, and Grand Image in Seattle, Washington. Tarver has lectured at various institutions, including The Barnes Foundation, the Rosenbach Museum, and the Woodmere Art Museum. He has also taught at Drury University, Perkins Center for the Arts, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, and the Princeton Photography Club. Publications Co-authored with Yvonne Latty, We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, from World War II to the War in Iraq, New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Awards 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. for photography 2007 and 2019 Independence Foundation Fellowship 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, as part of the team covering racialized school violence 2007 Fleisher Wind Challenge 2001 Pew Fellowship in the Arts 1994 National Geographic Magazine, Development Grant for Documentary Photography 1993 Sigma Delta Chi Award of the Society of Professional Journalists 1993 World Press Photo, Third Prize for Daily Life 1992 Nation Press Photographers / Association University of Missouri Pictures of the Year awards, Third Place References American photojournalists