UNITED STATES

Working in the tradition of humanistic documentary photography, Ed Kashi has completed personal essays on the heroin problem in Poland; culture and nightlife in the reunified Berlin; the return of Soviet veterans from the Afghan war; overpopulation in Cairo's "City of the Dead"; the motorbike culture of Saigon and the Christian pilgrimage site in Conyers, Georgia. Since 1991, Ed has been working with National Geographic focusing his attention primarily on issues in the Middle East. He has had two cover stories, on the Kurds and on water problems in the Middle East, as well as stories on Syria, the Crimea, and a rafting expedition on the Shilou He River in Tibet. The Kurds story has since been published in a book, When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds (Pantheon Books) co-authored with Christopher Hitchens. Ed is currently working on a long-term project examining the life of Jewish settlers in the West Bank. His work has appeared in Time, Fortune, Geo, Life, Smithsonian, London Independent Magazine, Newsweek, Forbes, Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Audubon, Granta and Aperture, among other national and international publications. He began his career in 1979 after graduating from Syracuse University with a degree in photojournalism.