2007 Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival 2007: inclusion of Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook
2007 Black Maria Film & Video Festival 2007: 2nd place winner for Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook
2007 POYi: Best Multimedia Feature Story or Essay Category for “The Sandwich Generation”
2001 POYi: Third Place, “Friends for Life” in Interactive Publication
2007 Freddie Awards: The International Health and Medical Awards: Wise Award for Best Cinematography and Winner in Geriatrics Category
2005 International Photographer of the Year Awards: Editorial, 3rd Place for “Ze Peixe”
2004 PDN Photography Annual: “Aging in America”, inclusion in the Photo Book category
2004 PDN Photography Annual: MSNBC.com website, “Aging in America”
2004 National Press Photographers Association, The Best of Photojournalism. Second Place
Feature Picture Story Winner, MSNBC.com, “Aging in America”
2004 POYi First Place Multi-Media Division/Multi-Media Story and Essay, MSNBC.com,  “Aging in America”
2004 POYi: Best Photography Book, “Aging in America”
2006 Nathan Cummings Grant for touring the Uninsured Americans Exhibition
2003 Hansel Mieth Prize for best reportage in Germany for the story “Ze Peixe”
2003 American Photo Magazine: Best Photo Books of 2003: “Aging in America”
2003 Golden Light Award for Best Collaborative Effort on a Documentary Project “Aging in America”
2003 Nathan Cummings Grant for production of a book and exhibition on America’s Uninsured Crisis, published March 2003, entitled “Denied: The Crisis of America’s Uninsured”
2002 National Press Photographers Association: Best of Photojournalism: First Place for Best Use of the Web, Best Picture Story, and Best Feature Story, “Aging in America”
2001 POYi: First Place, Magazine Feature Picture Story on Pine Ridge Elders
2001 World Press: Second Place in Single Picture Daily Life Category: “W. Virginia Hospice”
2001 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: 2 year fellowship grant for “Aging in America”
1999 Open Society Institute Project on Death in America: grant awarded
1998 POYi: Award of Excellence, Magazine Division, Issue Reporting Picture Story, “Nilda & Nyco”
1997 POYi: Third Place, Issue Reporting, “Burned Woman” and Third Place, Issue Reporting Picture Story, “America’s Aging Inmates”
1995 World Press Photo: Honorable Mention, Daily Life, “Natural Spring Bath, West Bank”
1993 POYi: Award of Excellence, Magazine Picture Story, “The Living City of the Dead”
1992 POYi: First Place and Award of Excellence, Magazine Feature Picture, “Struggle of the Kurds”
2007 World Affairs Council, International Journalism Award, First Place for “Struggle of the Kurds”
1998-2007 Communication Arts Photography Annuals

Ed Kashi has dedicated his photographic career to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. Since graduating with a degree in photojournalism from Syracuse University in 1979, he has photographed in over 60 countries. His images and essays have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Geo, Newsweek, and various other domestic and international publications.
In 1991, a project he proposed on the Kurds evolved into his first cover story for National Geographic, and most recently Kashi’s photographs chronicling the negative impact of oil development on the Niger Delta became his eleventh major story for the magazine. Premiering on MSNBC.com (12/06), his Iraqi/Kurdistan Flipbook demonstrated Kashi’s innovative approach to photography and filmmaking. Using stills in a moving image format, this creative and thought-provoking form of visual storytelling garnered a Black Maria Film and Video Festival Award (2007).
With his wife, writer Julie Winokur, Kashi completed an eight-year project which included a traveling exhibition, an award-winning documentary film, a website, and a book. Aging in America: The Years Ahead, published in the fall of 2003 by powerHouse Books, examines the social impact of the expanding elderly population in the United States. In 2002 Kashi and Winokur founded Talking Eyes Media, a non-profit multimedia company that explores social issues through visually compelling materials.
The first documentary project for Talking Eyes Media produced a book and traveling exhibition on uninsured Americans called, Denied: The Crisis of America's Uninsured. The book was published in March 2003 and the exhibition continues to travel throughout America.

Ed's personal website may be viewed here

2007 “Know War”, George Eastman House, Rochester NY
2006 “Overload: Photographing the Iraq War”, Spool Mfg. NY
2006 Pakistan Projection, Angkor Photography Festival, Cambodia
2006 “Another Asia. Photography from South and Southeast Asia”. Noorderlicht Photofestival, Netherlands
2005 “The Body at Risk. Photography of Disorder, Illness and Healing”, ICP, NY
2005 “Aging in America”, University of Iowa Hospital Medical Museum, Iowa
2005 “Uninsured Americans”, Princeton University’s Bernstein Gallery, NJ
2005 “Aging in America”, Columbia School of Social Work, NYC
2004 “Nazar: Photographs from the Arab World”, Noorderlicht Photography Festival, Netherlands
2004 “Aging in America: The Years Ahead”, Leica Gallery, NYC
2004 “Wounded Veterans from Iraq”, Solo Projection at Visa Pour L’Image Photo Festival
2003 “The Bettman 100”, Jacob Javits Center, NYC,
2003 “Aging in America”, Fifty Crows Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 “Denied: The Crisis of America’s Uninsured”, SF Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 “The Kurds”, World Affairs Council, San Francisco, CA
2003 “Denied: The Crisis of America’s Uninsured”, Union Station, Washington DC and Empire State Building, NYC
2002/3 “Kurdistan dans l’ombre de l’Histoire, L’Imaginaire”, Centre Regional de la Photographie, Cherbourg-Octeville, France
2000 “Moving Walls 2000”, Open Society Institute, NYC
1997 “Jewish Settlers in the West Bank”, Solo Projection at Visa Pour L’Image, Photo Festival, Perpignan, France
1996 “When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds”, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse, NY
1995 “Aging Prisoners in America” and “Beirut Reborn”, Solo Projection at Visa Pour L’Image, Photo Festival, Perpignan, France
1995 “When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds”, Visa Pour L’Image, Photo Festival, Perpignan, France
1991 One-Man Show, Kerlin Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1986 “Photo Metro”, Group Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1984 “Nicaragua”, Traveling Group Show
1983 One-Man Show, San Francisco Academy of Art, San Francisco
1980 One-Man Show, Canon Gallery, San Francisco

National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Geo, Newsweek, MSNBC.com, BusinessWeek, PDN, American Photo, Corriere Della Sera, D La Repubblica della Donne, Der Spiegel, Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, Smithsonian and many other domestic and international publications.

Ed Kashi is a photojournalist dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects have become the signatures of his award-winning work. Kashi's complex imagery has been recognized for its compelling rendering of the human condition.

Born in New York City in 1957, Kashi graduated from Syracuse University in 1979 with a degree in photojournalism and has since photographed in over 60 countries. His images have appeared in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Geo, Newsweek, MSNBC.COM, and many other domestic and international publications.

The February 2007 edition of National Geographic contains Kashi's 11th major story for the magazine since 1991. "Curse of the Black Gold, Hope and Betrayal in the Niger Delta" chronicles the negative impact of oil development on the impoverished Niger Delta. His first project for National Geographic was a cover story on the Kurds. It was subsequently published as his second monograph, When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (Pantheon). Most recently, Kashi's innovative approach to photography and filmmaking produced the Iraqi / Kurdistan Flipbook, which premiered on MSNBC.com in December 2006. Using stills in a moving image format, this creative and thought-provoking form of visual storytelling has garnered an award from the 26th annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival (2007) and will be utilized in an upcoming series of exhibitions on the Iraq War being presented at The George Eastman House.

Kashi's personal projects include documentary work on the Protestant community in Northern Ireland, self-published in a book titled, The Protestants: No Surrender. This study would set the tone for future explorations of groups in conflict who have been neglected by the mainstream media. In the mid-90's, Kashi spent several years documenting the lives of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. The settlers' story has been published worldwide, and a photograph from this essay received an award in the World Press Photo 1995 competition.

In 2003, Kashi completed an eight-year project called Aging in America: The Years Ahead, which included a traveling exhibition, an award-winning documentary film, a website, and a book. Published in the fall of 2003 by powerHouse Books, this work examines the social impact of the expanding elderly population in the United States. Features from this project have won awards from the Pictures of the Year and World Press Photo, and have been chosen for the American Photography and Communication Arts annuals. The book was named one of the best photo books of 2003 by American Photo Magazine.

Between editorial assignments and personal projects, Kashi teaches and mentors students of photography, participates in forums, and lectures on photojournalism, documentary photography, and multi-media storytelling. In 1998, he taught a semester in London for Syracuse University. In December 2002, Kashi and his wife, writer / filmmaker Julie Winokur founded Talking Eyes Media, a nonprofit multimedia company that explores significant social issues.

The first documentary project for Talking Eyes Media produced a book and traveling exhibition on uninsured Americans called, Denied: The Crisis of America's Uninsured. The book was published in March 2003, and the exhibition continues to travel across America.

"I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people's minds. I'm driven by this fact; that the work of photojournalists and documentary photographers can have a positive impact on the world. The access people give to their lives is precious as well as imperative for this important work to get done. Their openness brings with it a tremendous sense of responsibility to tell the truth but to also honor their stories."