Hare, Billy

Juan Guillermo Hare Calle (Billy Hare) entered the School of Visual Arts at the National University of Lima in 1964. There, he took a cinematography course taught by the Peruvian filmmaker Armando Robles Godoy. In the sixties, he traveled throughout America collaborating on commercials and documentaries until he defined his focus on photography in 1970. Between 1977 and 1978, he attended the Master's program at the Rhode Island School of Design as a Fulbright Commission scholar. In 1992, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. Billy Hare, a disciple of Minor White and Aaron Siskind, has taught at the Catholic University of Lima and San Ignacio de Loyola University. He is the founder of the Photography Department at the Gaudí Institute, the Center for Photography, the Secuencia Photo Gallery, and the El Ojo Ajeno Gallery. In 1997, the Telefonica Foundation organized a retrospective exhibition of his work and published an extensive catalog titled "Billy Hare Photographs."