Ed Kashi Quotes

United States, Photojournalist
November 16, 1957

Ed Kashi is an American photojournalist and member of VII Photo based in the Greater New York area. Kashi's work spans from print photojournalism to experimental film. He is most noted for documenting sociopolitical issues.

My evolution into becoming a photojournalist started with falling in love with literature when I was a teenager, falling in love with novels and imagining a life of being a storyteller.

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What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two decades ago, are a people who are aching to return to their homes.

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- Conflict
- Homes
- Aching

I have never been more excited than I am today about making pictures.

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- Excited
- Pictures
If you want to be a photographer, particularly a photojournalist , you want to learn about the world. You want to learn about yourself. And you want to find things that you genuinely care about, because that will be the source of your greatest work.

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- Work
- Care
- Learn
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.

Ed Kashi