Ed Kashi (born 1957) is an American photojournalist and member of VII Photo Agency based in the Greater New York area.[2] Kashi's work spans from print photojournalism to experimental film. He is noted for documenting sociopolitical issues.
Kashi uses stills along with video and audio for storytelling purposes.[10][11] His Iraqi Kurdistan flipbook premiered on msnbc.com in 2006.[12] The flipbook utilizes thousands of stills in a moving image format, layered with music to create a symphonic documentary.[12] The flipbook was included in Silverdocs film festival in 2007 and the Tiburon International Film Festival in 2008.[13]
"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).[14][15][16][17]Photojournalisms, his latest book is a compilation of journal writings to his wife, done over a nearly 20-year period.[18] It was published in March 2012, by JGS/Nazraeli Press and was highlighted during an interview with Kashi for the New York Times Lens Blog.[19]
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, USA. The Enigma Room is an experimental multimedia projection created in collaboration with Brenda Bingham, Michael Curry, and Rachel Bolańos.
Kashi continues to teach and lecture at art institutes and universities.[20][21] He has taught a class titled "New Frontiers in the Art of Visual Storytelling" at the Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP).[3]
Talking Eyes Media
Kashi and his wife, Julie Winokur, are co-founders of a non-profit multimedia company called Talking Eyes Media.[6] 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,[22][dead link]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 [23] and received awards from Pictures of the Year International,[24]World Press Photo.[25]
Publications
Publications by Kashi
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[17]
Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography. Germany Kehrer, 2021[26]
Publications with others
Contatti. Provini d'Autore = Choosing the best photo by using the contact sheet. Vol. I. Edited by Giammaria De Gasperis. Rome: Postcart, 2012. ISBN978-88-86795-87-6.
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. ISBN978-3-95829-167-6. An annual publication by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA), this year about Human Rights Watch (HRW). In it HRW Executive Director Kenneth Roth, Zama Coursen-Neff, Executive Director of the Children's Rights Division at HRW, and George Soros discuss the work of HRW. Kashi's photo-essays on Syrian Refugees and on chronic kidney disease among sugar cane workers in Central America illustrate the topic.[27]
Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (second edition), edited by Susan Meiselas. University Chicago Press. 2008 ISBN978-0226519289
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.
2016: Ai-AP 32: Editorial, Photojournalism: CKDnT and Ghana
2017: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant: Newest Americans
2017: National Geographic Society Explorer's Grant recipient for CKDnT project
2019: Berlin Short Film Festival Award of Excellence; Impact DOCS Awards Award of Excellence; Belfast Respect Human Rights Film Festival official selection: Hot Dogs on a Tricycle, a HomeStorytellers film
2019: Px3 State of the World/Social documentary exhibition winner: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKDnT)
2021: Pictures of the Year (POY), Documentary Daily Life, Second Place, "Sheila and Joe"; Online Storytelling Project of the Year, Newest Americans
2022: Px3 Book Photographer of the Year award for "Abandoned Moments" [26]