Edward Grazda

Born in Flushing, Queens, Edward Grazda studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. During the 1970's he photographed in Latin America. Since 1980 he has photographed Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the author of Afghanistan Diary 1992-2000 (PowerHouse Books, 2000) and Afghanistan 1980-1989 (DerAlltag, 1990). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Double Take and Granta and is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and MOMA among others. He has received grants from The New York Foundation For The Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow four times. NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York with text by Jerrilynn Dodds and photographs by Edward Grazda was published by PowerHouse Books in May 2002. In 2005 he received support from the Oman Ministry of Awaqaf and Religious Affairs and from the Institute of American Values in New York to work on a three-month project in the Sultanate of Oman about culture and society.

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