Jason Eskenazi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jason Eskenazi
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Apr 23, 1960(1960-04-23)
Age	64
Country	United States
Birth City	Queens
Horoscope	Aries

Jason Eskenazi Biography

Jason Eskenazi is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on April 23, 1960 in Queens, United States. Eskenazi was born on the 23rd of April of 1960 , in Queens, New York. He went to Bayside High School then studied psychology and American literature at Queens College. While in Queens College he was photo editor for the yearbook. He also helped photographers on assignments and also worked as freelance photographer with Queens Tribune. Queens Tribune. After graduating, he was employed in darkrooms, received local assignments for photos, continued as an assistant, and worked as an intern at a photo agency located in New York. When he was 29, and enthralled by the collapse of the Berlin Wall, he began to travel and take photographs. The first trip he made was to Romania (for the first democratic elections) as well as Germany after which he went to Germany, and finally Russia in 1991 shortly before the coup in August that was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union.

In 2004 and 2005, Eskenazi was the director of the Kids With Cameras initiative in Jerusalem and taught the art of photography in the classroom to Arab Muslims and Jewish children. Their photos were shown throughout New York, San Francisco, Oklahoma, and Montreal as well as in her self-published publication, Beyond the Wall.

From 2008 to 2009, for economic reasons as well as to obtain health insurance, Eskenazi worked as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. During this time, he worked as a guard for the exhibition Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans, which allowed him a lot of time to study and be inspired by Robert Frank’s photographs. Also, Eskenazi asked renowned photographers and others he recognised visiting the exhibition what their favorite image from Frank’s book The Americans was, and why. He edited the resulting notes and thoughts of 276 photographers into a book, By the Glow of the Jukebox: The Americans List. William Meyers, writing in the Wall Street Journal, favourably reviewed The Americans List, as did photographer David Carol.

In 2011 Eskenazi successfully raised funding via a Kickstarter campaign to complete The Black Garden, his second major book project and the second in his trilogy, a photographic investigation of the East–west divide. The framework for The Black Garden is Greek mythology, and the book was photographed within the vast territory known to the ancient Greeks, from the Mediterranean to the Caucasus, including Turkey, Greece, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Egypt, Libya, and Sicily, as well as New York City.

Eskenazi was awarded an award of the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize and the Guggenheim Fellowship, both in 1999. Wonderland received the top prize in a prize for books by Pictures of the Year International in 2008.

Jason Eskenazi Net Worth

Jason Eskenazi is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jason Eskenazi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jason Eskenazi (born April 23 60) is an American photographer who is who is based on Brooklyn, New York. His majority of his work originates from the nations of the ex Soviet Union, including his book Wonderland: A Fantasy Tale of the Soviet Monolith (2008).

In the first book in the series, Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith, Eskenazi undertook an extensive project in Russia and the former Soviet Union between 1991 and 2001. Utilizing the fairy tale as a model and a theme, he “took the title of his book from Alice in Wonderland, [and] likens the breakup of the Soviet Union (and the food and security provided by the Communist Party) to the end of childhood.” Eugene Richards commented: “Most photographers today either do art photography or create blunt, in-your-face messages. . . . The place he went to could be seen in a million ways, but Eskenazi always seems to capture the little non-moments, the lonely souls.”. An exhibition of his works was held by The Leica Gallery in New York. The book was awarded first prize in the Pictures of the Year’s International’s “Best Use Books’ category in the year 2008.

In 2005, funded by a grant from the Fulbright Program, Eskenazi and Russian photographer Valeri Nistratov travelled in the Russian Federation, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. They made colour portraits of people using a 4×5 large format camera, resulting in the book Title Nation.

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Jason Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jason Eskenazi celebrates birthday on April 23 of every year.