Ad Club Hispanic Marketing “Lifetime Achievement Award” 2006
Bravo Award, art and cultural achievement (posthumous award),
included on the Gayle McCandliss award winners for 2007.
The Art And Culture committee at the Council Chamber Hall
for the City of Chula Vista has presented this award to
Victor Diaz for his dedication and successful effort in
embracing the community through art and culture.
LifeTime Achievement Award, KPBS 2007.
TESTIMONIAL
On the night of a full moon one August, I stared at the Kenyan sky, my eyes dazzled by the planet Mars, closest to the earth in six million years. And as I stood directly on the equator and a lion roared in the distance, I thought of my friend Victor Diaz, the brightest star in my experience with passionate collectors of color photographic prints. Victor’s collection exceeds 3,500 images.
In principle, I am writing this because of one man’s passion and epic photographic accomplishment. Another reason for putting pen to paper is a debt to the generous people who in the past have been kind enough to write about my work: best selling, loved author, James Michener; acclaimed violinist, Sir Yehudi Menuhin; president of the World Wildlife Fund, Prince Bernard of the Netherlands; National Geographic’s ‘greatest explorer of the 20th century’, Sir Wilfred Thesiger; actor icon, William Shatner, Academy Award-winning actress and princess, Grace Kelly; actor and author, Sir Peter Ustinov; and the world’s most innovative female film director and acclaimed photographer, the problematic Leni Reifenstahl. READ MORE
