Jon Lowenstein

Jon Lowenstein
Born Jonathan Scott Lowenstein
(1970-01-16) January 16, 1970
Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Known for Photography
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship in photography
2011
Website jonlowenstein.com

Jon Lowenstein (born January 16, 1970) is an American documentary photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist. His work focuses on confronting the complex issues of wealth inequality, structural racism, violence, and wealth inequality.

His extensive body of work has been recognized and featured in exhibitions and museums internationally, as well as The New Yorker,[1] New York Times,[2] News Week and on Channel 4, a British public-service television broadcaster. He has also been a guest several times on NPR discussing issues of poverty and violence. He is a member and owner of NOOR photo agency, a cooperative photojournalist agency located in the Netherlands.

Life and Work

Lowenstein was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in English and completed additional study towards a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Columbia College as well as the Universidad del Pais Vasco in San Sebastian, Spain. He joined NOOR Images in 2008.

His international work has included covering elections in Afghanistan, the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and social violence in Mexico and Central America.

Long Term Projects

Lowenstein has spent the past two decades engaged in two large-scale documentary projects – one focusing on his adopted community on Chicago’s South Side and the other documenting the experience of undocumented Latin Americans coming to and living in the United States.

South Side is an expansive body of work encompassing photography, film, found ephemera, archival material and mixed-media art evoking a uniquely American time and place. Having lived on the South Side of Chicago for two decades, run a community newspaper and taught in neighborhood public schools, Lowenstein’s project functions as a participatory media project seeking to engage both the immediate community and a larger audience. It is a collaborative effort challenging accepted notions of community, poverty, segregation, power, and hope that is widely exhibited in museums, galleries and the press.[3]

Shadow Lives USA follows the migrant trail from Central America, through Mexico and the United States in an effort to tell the stories of the men and women who make up the largest transnational migration in world history. Lowenstein has accompanied migrants on each part of their journey north, swimming the Rio Grande, crossing the border with them, and later documenting individual families lives in America. Unique in both its breadth and intimate scope, Shadow Lives is meant to spur dialogue around the immigrant experience, the dangers of border crossings, living undocumented in the United States, and deportation.[2]

Awards

  • 2014: Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize[4]
  • 2014: TED Senior Fellow[5]
  • 2012: Open Society Foundation’s Audience Engagement Grant[6]
  • 2012: Hasselblad Master
  • 2011: Guggenheim fellow in Photography for the South Side project.[7][3]
  • 2011: TED Global Fellow[8]
  • 2008: Joseph P. Albright Fellow by the Alicia Patterson Foundation
  • 2007: Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography[9]
  • 2007: World Press Award: Daily Life, 2nd Prize[10]
  • 2007: USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism Racial Justice Fellowship[11]
  • 2005: NPPA New America Award
  • 2004: World Press Photo prize[12]
  • 2003: Nikon Sabbatical Grant
  • 2000: 58th POYi Magazine Photographer of the Year Award, Fuji Community Awareness Award

References

  1. ↑ Curtis, Elissa (November 13, 2012). "Election Night on Chicago's South Side, in Polaroids". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Estrin, James (December 18, 2012). "The Opportunity, or Not, to Be American". lens.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  3. 1 2 , The Daily Beast: Gang Violence and Crime in Chicago
  4. ↑ , Lange Taylor Prize
  5. ↑ , Ted Senior Fellow: Jon Lowenstein
  6. ↑ , Audience Engagement Grant
  7. ↑ , Guggenheim Fellow in Photography: Jon Lowenstein
  8. ↑ , TED Global Fellow: Jon Lowenstein
  9. ↑ , Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography
  10. ↑ , World Press Photo Award
  11. ↑
  12. ↑ , World Press Photo Prize
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