Racial Justice Fellows, 2007

Jon Lowenstein
Photojournalist
Freelance Photographer

JON LOWENSTEIN has been a professional photographer for more than 10 years. He specializes in long-term, in-depth documentary photographic projects that question the status quo. He was one of eight staff photographers for the CITY 2000 (Chicago In The Year 2000) project, during which time he started an ongoing project about Mexican immigration to the U.S. Recently, Lowenstein completed work on his first book, exploring the lives of developmentally disabled people in Illinois and is now working on several book projects. For three years, he taught photography to middle-school students and helped publish a community newspaper about the South Side Chicago community that he is documenting. He has won many awards, including 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. He participated in the Open Society Institute’s Moving Walls VII Exhibition in New York City. He received his B.A. from the University of Iowa.

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