Jon Lowenstein
| Jon Lowenstein | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jonathan Scott Lowenstein January 16, 1970 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Photography |
| Awards |
Guggenheim Fellowship in photography 2011 |
| Website | jonlowenstein |
Jon Lowenstein (born January 16, 1970) is an American documentary photographer. He is a member and owner of NOOR photo agency, a cooperative photojournalist agency located in the Netherlands.
His work has been featured in The New Yorker,New York Times, 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.
Lowenstein was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Jewish family. His mother, Alice Lowenstein, is a writer, and his father, Edward Lowenstein, is a retired medical doctor. He grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. Lowenstein has two older brothers, Jeff and Michael Lowenstein. He attended the University of Iowa where, while studying English language, he had aspirations to become a photographer, which led to taking classes at a local camera shop. The owner of the shop recognized his passion and volunteered to mentor him.
Lowenstein has spent the past decade engaging his adopted community on Chicago’s South Side through photography.
During this time, Lowenstein has also traveled, studied, and documented the experiences of undocumented Latin Americans living throughout the United States. Shadow Lives USA follows the migrant trail from Central America, through Mexico and throughout the United States in an effort to tell the real stories of the men and women who make up the largest transnational migration in world history. This project, unique in its breadth and intimate scope, forces the viewer to engage with the impact of America’s punitive immigration and economic policies on some of the United States’ most vulnerable populations.
His international assignments have included covering elections in Afghanistan, the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and social violence in Guatemala. He completed a project about the impact of inhaled nitric oxide on cerebral Malaria in Ugandan Children. He has also worked in countries like Brazil, El Salvador, South Africa, Mexico, and Germany.
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