Jon Lowenstein has been a professional photographer for more than ten years. He specializes in long-term, in-depth projects that confront the realms of power, poverty, and violence. As a documentary photographer, he strives for unsparing clarity, and believes images make a critical contribution by revealing the subjects of history that lack voice. At the core of the work, and by his own admission, is a lighted love of people. An equally intractable believer in the art, he asks those who consider photography unessential to picture a world with no pictures.
For more than a decade Jon Lowenstein has traveled, studied, and documented the experiences of undocumented Latin Americans living throughout the United States. He has followed the migrant trail from Central America, through Mexico and throughout the United States in an effort to the real stories of the men and women who make up the largest transnational migration in world history. He is member and owner of the NOOR Images cooperative and photo agency.
Jon was recently named a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow. He was chosen out of 3000 applicants for the prestigious prize. He is also currently a 2011 TED Global Fellow. In 2008 he was named the Joseph P. Albright Fellow by the Alicia Patterson Foundation and also won a 2007 Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography. He also won a 2007 World Press Award and was named as a USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism Racial Justice Fellowship. He won the 2005 NPPA New America Award, a 2004 World Press photo prize, 2003 Nikon Sabbatical Grant, the 58th National Press Photographer’s Pictures of the Year Magazine Photographer of the Year Award and Fuji Community Awareness Award.
His international assignments include covering elections in Afghanistan to the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti to social violence in Guatemala. Most recently, he began a project about the impact of cerebral Malaria in Children in Uganda.
Jon resides in Chicago.
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2010 FotoWeek DC Festival, Washington DC, USA
Moving wall collective exhibition
2010 Roosevelt Gage Gallery
"Violent Realities"
2010 World Tour Exhibition
Launched at the United Nations Climate Summit
in Copenhagen in December 2009
"Consequences by NOOR"
2008 Alternatilla Festival, Las Palmas, Mallorca, Spain
NOOR Group Exhibition "217A"
2008 Visa pour l'Image, Perpignan, France
Screenings "Nota Roja, Guatemala City"
2008 La Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau, Paris, France
"NOOR Group Exhibition"
2010 Lecture at the Annenberg School for Communication
and Journalism, Los Angeles, USA
2010 Lecture at Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism
Evanston, USA
2010 Lecture at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public
Communications, New York, USA
2009 NOOR Masterclass Lagos, Nigeria
2011- TED Global Fellowship
2011 - John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
2010 - Freedom to create,
Main Prize
2009 - Honickman First Book Prize in Photography,
Honorable Mention.
2008 - Joseph P. Albright Fellow - Alicia Patterson Foundation
2007 - Getty Award for Editorial Images
2007 - World Press Photo Award
2007 - USC Annenberg Institutefor Justice and Journalism,
Racial Justice Fellow
2006 - Finalist Eugene Smith Award
2005 - NPPA New America Award
2004 - World Press Photo Prize
2004 - Nikon Sabbatical Grant
2002 - POYi, Magazine Photographer of the Year,
and Community Awareness Award
2001 - 2004 - Commission - Comer Science and Education Foundation
Document
2000 - Commission - Chicago in the Year 2000 Documentary Project
