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Jesús Manuel Mena Garza (born June 15,1952) is a Chicano photographer and instructor. According to the Huffington Post, “For more than four decades, he has been photographing interesting characters he has encountered throughout his life, making them timeless.”

Garza was a member of San José, California’s Chicano Film Institute and El Centro Cultural de la Gente. Garza's artistic vision was shaped by his boyhood in San José, California and nurtured at Roosevelt Junior High, San José High, San José State University, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Academy of Art College. Garza has been taking photographs since he was 11 years old.

Garza exhibits and lectures about his photographs and is a college instructor. He was born in 1952 to Eusebio and Guadalupe Mena Garza in San José, California. From the beginning, Garza's images have their source in his migrant farm worker heritage and his immersion in the dynamic political and artistic culture of El Movimiento, the political movement that emerged during the mid-60s seeking social justice for Chicana/os.

Jesús Garza’s photographs have been published in: Cesar Chavez, Amazing Americans, Wright Group/McGraw-Hill. The Fight in the Fields, Susan Ferriss, Harcourt Brace & Company. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Race and Mexicans in Northern California, Dr. Stephen Pitti, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Princeton University Press. Cesar Chavez and La Causa, Dan La Botz, Visiting Assistant Professor-History, Miami University, Ohio, Pearson Longman Press. Smithsonian Q & A: Latino History & Culture: The Ultimate Question & Answer Book, Ilan Stavans, Harper Collins Publishers, etc.

Jesús Garza, Photographer, Resurrects 1970′s Chicano Civil Rights Movement, Huffington Post, accessed November 12, 2012, <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/jesus-garza-photographer-_n_1916050.html>.