Ed Kashi

Kashi was born in New York City in 1957. He graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications in 1979 with a major in photojournalism, and minors in English and Religion.{{cite news |title=Teaching Workshop: Ed Kashi '79 |url=https://calendar.syracuse.edu/events/2022-oct-24/ed-kashi-79-teaching-workshop/ |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=Syracuse University |date=30 September 2022}}{{cite web |author1=@edkashi |title=I recently had the pleasure of visiting my alma mater @SyracuseU for an exhibition of... |url=https://twitter.com/edkashi/status/1585400923211399179 |website=Twitter |access-date=9 November 2022 |language=en}}

Kashi has worked with National Geographic Society and since 1990 has produced 17 major feature articles, and worked in over 100 countries.{{cite web|access-date=2021-10-15|title=Ed Kashi's best shot|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/mar/17/photography-ed-kashi-best-shot |date=17 March 2010|website=the Guardian}}{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Roselind |title=Ed Kashi; Recording The Human Experience Page 2 |url=https://www.shutterbug.com/content/ed-kashi-recording-human-experience-page-2 |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=Shutterbug |date=1 August 2005 |language=en}} His clients include: The New York Times Magazine, Time, The New Yorker, Mediastorm, Ford Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, GEO, Newsweek and msnbc.com.{{cite web |last1=Kashi |first1=Ed |title=Ed Kashi bio |url=https://www.edkashi.com/about |website=Ed Kashi}}

Kashi has covered the plight of the Kurdish people and the impact of the oil industry upon the impoverished Niger Delta. He is known for his coverage of the Protestant community in Northern Ireland, the lives of Jewish settlers in the West Bank, and the strife between the Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq.{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Rosalind |title=Ed Kashi; Recording The Human Experience |url=https://www.shutterbug.com/content/ed-kashi-recording-human-experience |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=Shutterbug |date=1 August 2005 |language=en}}

Kashi uses stills along with video and audio for storytelling purposes.{{cite journal |last1=Kashi |first1=Ed |title=Journey to a New Beginning |journal=Nieman Reports |date=Spring 2010 |volume=9 |pages=8–10 |url=https://niemanreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/NRSpring2010.pdf |access-date=9 November 2022}}{{Cite news |last=Ettin |first=Scott |title=In The Thick Of It All |url=http://www.digitalphotopro.com/art/in-the-thick-of-it-all_4.html |access-date=2007-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102182403/http://www.digitalphotopro.com/art/in-the-thick-of-it-all_4.html |archive-date=2007-11-02 |url-status=dead }} His Iraqi Kurdistan flipbook premiered on msnbc.com in 2006.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003381885 |title=Kashi's "Flip Book" Kurdistan Presentation Debuts On MSNBC |access-date=2007-11-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128035123/http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003381885 |archive-date=2007-11-28 |url-status=dead }} The flipbook utilizes thousands of stills in a moving image format, layered with music to create a symphonic documentary. The flipbook was included in Silverdocs film festival in 2007 and the Tiburon International Film Festival in 2008.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com/filmInfo.php?film_id=5055|title=Tiburon International Film Festival}}

"Curse of the Black Gold, Hope and Betrayal in the Niger Delta", published in National Geographic in February 2007, chronicled the negative impact of oil development on the impoverished Niger Delta. This article led to a collaborative photographic and editorial essay book, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta (2008).{{cite web|access-date=2021-10-15|title=Vital oil: photographer Ed Kashi captures Nigeria's toxic legacy |url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/mar/22/photographer-kashi-nigeria-oil|date=22 March 2010|website=The Guardian}}{{cite news |first1=Ed|last1=Kashi|first2=Michael|last2=Watts|access-date=2021-10-15|title=Curse of the Black Gold |url=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2008/10/curse-black-gold-book-nigeria-oil/ |website=Mother Jones}}{{cite web|access-date=2021-10-15|title=The Niger Delta: The curse of the black gold|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/the-niger-delta-the-curse-of-the-black-gold-882384.html|date=23 October 2011|website=The Independent}}{{cite news|first1=Shiona|last1=Tregaskis|access-date=2021-10-15|title=In pictures: Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2010/mar/05/curse-black-gold-nigeria |newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 March 2010|issn=0261-3077}} Photojournalisms, a compilation of journal writings to his wife done over a nearly 20-year period, was published in March 2012 by JGS/Nazraeli Press.{{cite news |last1=Coleman |first1=Sarah |title=Home and Away: An Interview with Ed Kashi |url=https://theliteratelens.com/2015/09/28/home-and-away-an-interview-with-ed-kashi/ |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=The Literate Lens |date=28 September 2015 |language=en}}{{cite news|first1=James|last1=Estrin|access-date=2018-11-17|title=Photographing the World, Longing for Home|url=http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/photographing-the-world-longing-for-home/|newspaper=The New York Times Lens Blog|date=21 March 2012 }}

In 2019, The Enigma Room an immersive installation, premiered at NYC's Photoville festival, and has since been seen in Israel, the Netherlands, South Korea, and New Mexico, U.S. The Enigma Room is an experimental multimedia projection created in collaboration with Brenda Bingham, Michael Curry, and Rachel Bolańos.{{cn|date=October 2024}}

His book, Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography, was published by Kehrer in Germany, in 2021.

Kashi continues to teach and lecture at art institutes and universities.{{Cite web|title=Promotional Work|url=https://www.coroflot.com/monicabarron/Promotional-Work|access-date=2022-11-09|website=Coroflot|language=en-US}} He taught a class titled "New Frontiers in the Art of Visual Storytelling" at the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP).{{cite news |title=LACP Interviews Ed Kashi |url=https://lacphoto.org/people/ed-kashi/ |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=The Los Angeles Center of Photography}} He currently teaches a three year mentoring program with James Estrin of the New York Times, at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center, as well as conducts workshops around the globe and mentors photographers through the VII Foundation’s mentor program.

Kashi and his wife, Julie Winokur, are co-founders of a non-profit multimedia company called Talking Eyes Media.{{cite news |last1=Kashi |first1=Ed |last2=Winokur |first2=Julie |title=Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur on the Work-Home Balance |url=https://pdnonline.com/features/ed-kashi-and-julie-winokur-on-the-work-home-balance/ |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=Photo District News |date=12 July 2012 |language=en}} Talking Eyes Media was created in 2002 to deliver issue-orientated stories to the general public. Some of the stories covered by Talking Eyes Media/Ed Kashi are: Aging in America,{{Cite web |title=Michener Art Museum Presents Aging in America: The Years Ahead |url=http://www.michenermuseum.org/press/?item=2007-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070320094144/http://www.michenermuseum.org/press/?item=2007-02-01|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 20, 2007|access-date=2022-11-05|website=www.michenermuseum.org}} Denied: The Crisis of America's Uninsured and The Sandwich Generation. Aging in America was also the subject of a book, named by American Photo Magazine as one of the best photo books of 2003{{cite web |last1=Kashi |first1=Ed |title=Photographer Profile - Ed Kashi: "I want my work to have a part in change" |url=https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/15007/photographer-profile-ed-kashi-i-want-my-work-t.html |website=AI-AP's profiles |publisher=AI-AP |access-date=August 25, 2015}} and received awards from Pictures of the Year International{{cite web |last1=Kashi |first1=Ed |title=Third Place, Freelance, "America's Aging Inmates" |url=https://www.poy.org/55/27/frame3.html |website=POY |access-date=}} and World Press Photo.{{Cite web |url=http://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2011/contemporary-issues/ed-kashi |title=Ed Kashi, 2nd prize, singles, World Press Photo |access-date=2016-10-13 |archive-date=2016-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013224848/http://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo/2011/contemporary-issues/ed-kashi |url-status=dead }}

He is married to Julie Winokur who is a writer and filmmaker and frequent collaborator.

• No Surrender: The Protestants. Self-published, 1991.
• When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds. Pantheon, 1994.
• Aging in America: The Years Ahead. Brooklyn: powerHouse, 2003.
• Denied: The Crisis of America's Uninsured. Talking Eyes, 2003.
• Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta. Brooklyn: powerHouse, 2008.
• Three. Brooklyn: powerHouse, 2009.
• Madagascar: A Land Out of Balance. Prix Pictet, 2010.
• Photojournalisms. JGS: Witness #8. Portland, Oregon: Nazraeli, 2012.
• Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography. Germany Kehrer, 2021.
• The Cali Years. Self-published, 2021.

• Contatti. Provini d'Autore = Choosing the best photo by using the contact sheet. Vol. I. Edited by Giammaria De Gasperis. Rome: Postcart, 2012. {{ISBN|978-88-86795-87-6}}.
• Human Rights Watch: Struggling for a Humane World: Interviews / Ed Kashi: Sugar Cane | Syrian Refugees: Photographs. Göttingen: Steidl; Stuttgart: Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, 2016. Edited by Ronald Grätz and Hans-Joachim Neubauer. {{ISBN|978-3-95829-167-6}}. An annual publication by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA), this year about Human Rights Watch (HRW). Kashi's photo-essays on Syrian Refugees and on chronic kidney disease among sugar cane workers in Central America illustrate the topic."[http://edkashi.com/project/human-rights-watch-struggling-humane-world/ Human Rights Watch: Struggling for a Humane World] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722215218/http://edkashi.com/project/human-rights-watch-struggling-humane-world/ |date=2017-07-22 }}" Ed Kashi, Accessed 16 November 2016
• Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (second edition), edited by Susan Meiselas. University Chicago Press. 2008 {{ISBN|978-0226519289}}
• Visions of Paradise National Geographic. 2008.
• What Matters: The World's Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential Issues of Our Time, David Elliot Cohen. 2008.
• In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits, National Geographic. 2010.
• Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph. Edited by Jason Fulford. New York: Aperture. 2021. {{ISBN|9781597114998}}.{{Cite web|title=Photo No-Nos: Meditations on What Not to Photograph|url=https://aperture.org/books/photo-no-nos-meditations-on-what-not-to-photograph/|access-date=2021-10-14|website=Aperture|language=en-US}}

• 2008: Special Jury Prize, Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards{{cite web | url = http://www.daysjapan.net/e/award2008/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140315214835/http://www.daysjapan.net/e/award2008/ | url-status = usurped | archive-date = March 15, 2014 | access-date = 10 June 2015 | publisher = Days Japan | title = Winner's List}}
• 2006: Special Jury Prize, Days Japan International Photojournalism Awards{{cite web | url = http://www.daysjapan.net/e/award2006/result.html | access-date = 10 June 2015 | publisher = Days Japan | title = Winner's List | archive-date = 10 June 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150610110032/http://www.daysjapan.net/e/award2006/result.html | url-status = usurped }}
• 2009: Shortlisted, Prix Pictet{{cite news|access-date=2021-10-15|title=Prix Pictet II shortlist: Earth|url=https://www.ft.com/content/e408e098-6b62-11de-861d-00144feabdc0|newspaper=Financial Times|date=11 July 2009}}
• 2015: Pictures of the Year (POY): Multimedia Photographer of the Year 1st Place; Documentary Photojournalism 1st Place{{cite news |title='Ed Kashi: Advocacy Journalism' Pop-Up Exhibition on Display at Syracuse University Art Museum Oct. 25-30 |url=https://news.syr.edu/blog/2022/10/18/ed-kashi-advocacy-journalism-pop-up-exhibition-on-display-at-syracuse-university-art-museum-oct-25-30/ |access-date=9 November 2022 |work=Syracuse University News |date=18 October 2022}}
• 2022: Px3 Book Photographer of the Year award for "Abandoned Moments"{{cite web |title=PX3 2022 Winner - Abandoned Moments |url=https://px3.fr/winners/px3/2022/12715/ |publisher=Px3 |access-date=9 November 2022}}

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• {{Official|http://www.edkashi.com}}
• [http://www.talkingeyesmedia.org Talking Eyes Media]
• [https://sites.libsyn.com/18315/tcf-ep-589-ed-kashi The Candid Frame Podcast Ep. 589 with Ed Kashi]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBbzFl1XoE Photography Techniques: Photojournalism Tips From Ed Kashi] – 10 minute video

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