Ed Kashi is an American photojournalist, filmmaker and educator, born in New York City in 1957, who has been telling stories with images for four decades. He documents the social and political issues of our time, from conflict zones to communities dealing with aging, health, migration and environmental change. A member of VII Photo, he has published fourteen books, and his work appears in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine and TIME. In 2015 the POYi Awards named him Multimedia Photographer of the Year. In 2002 he and his wife, writer and filmmaker Julie Winokur, founded Talking Eyes Media.
His recent books include Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography (Kehrer Verlag, 2021), photographs made in moments of surrender to chance rather than control, and Visual Riffs (Eyeshot, 2025), which pairs images from different decades and countries. A Period in Time: Looking Back while Moving Forward, 1977–2022 (2025) is a retrospective published by the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, which houses his archive. Alongside his own work, he mentors younger photographers.
