Edward Grazda is an American photographer, born in Queens, New York, in 1947. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1969 and has photographed in the USA, Latin America and Asia.
His books include Afghanistan Diary, NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York, A Last Glance: Trading Posts of the Four Corners, Mean Streets: NYC 1970-1985, On The Bowery: NYC 1971 and Asia Calling: A Photographer’s Notebook 1980-1997, all from PowerHouse Books. His work is in the collections of MoMA, The Met, the New York Public Library, SFMOMA, the Harvard Art Museums and George Eastman House. He has taught at Harvard, the Boston Museum School and the International Center of Photography. He lives in Chilmark, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island.
In 2026 Red Hook Editions published The Power of Observation, a facsimile of the notebook in which he drew, from memory, things he had photographed on his travels in Asia in the 1980s. “Have faith in your eyes and feelings,” he told us.
