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PROJECT DIRECTOR, JASON ESKENAZIJason Eskenazi was born in Queens N.Y. and attended Queens College where he studied Psychology and American Literature. He was also the photo-ed of the college yearbook. During this time he assisted photographers and worked for a local Queens newspaper. After graduating he worked many years in darkrooms, did professional assignments and continued to assist learning about the photography trade. When the Berlin wall fell that was his cue to finally take off and pursue a career as a photographer. He traveled to Berlin and Romania and finally to Russia, then still the Soviet Union, where he would base himself for the coming years. In that time he won the Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant 1996; a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1999, for his Russian work called Wonderland. He also received the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize for his story on Jews in Azerbaijan and recently a Fulbright, 2004, to do a collaborative project with a Russian colleague to shoot large format color portraits of Russians. His trip to teach children in Jerusalem was his first trip to the region where he learned about the situation in the Middle East through the eyes of the kids he taught. Though the classes have finished he hopes to bring back the project to the community with an evening slide show presentation in the old city inviting the families of the kids and the community. An exhibition and book are planned as well. He is currently working on a project about Greek myths and ideals in the modern world. He is a member of the World Picture News photo agency and lives in New York. |
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