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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I recently documented Spaarne Rowing Club, one of the oldest rowing clubs in the Netherlands where 83-year-old Ton van Schoonhoven has coached for fourteen years. There's something fitting about chasing a story about being "Ageless," while an 83-year-old man rows past you like it's nothing.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For those in D.C., the inspiring UNHCR activist Mary Maker will be doing a reading of her new solo theater piece, The Unexceptional Refugee, on October 2nd at The Lab. Learn more and RSVP here: bit.ly/4rxcRuP?utm_campaign=cosched…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a glimpse into our recent film, One Hot Day, documenting the lives of three women in India who live and work in ext... time.com/article/2026/09/19/what-10… #SEWA

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At 83, Ton van Schoonhoven has spent nearly eight decades connected to the water. His story changed the way I think about my own time and gave me a clearer sense of what "Agele... edkashi378614.substack.com/p/the-li…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm excited to share our film, One Hot Day, documenting the lives of women in India who live and work in extreme heat. The... @time time.com/article/2026/09/19/what-10…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pleased to share that The VII Foundation's book, USA 3.0, won first place in the International Photography Awards! Honored to be a part of this book and grateful to the jury for recognizing how vital photojournalism remains in this pivotal moment.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

As long as documentary photography continues to have the freedom and power to impact civilization and maintain democracy, the future of photojournalism will be bright.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Rubina is a seamstress in Ahmedabad and the sole provider for her two daughters. She works and lives in the same small space that traps heat like an oven during India's worst heatwave. From my "Overheated" project, focusing on how the climate crisis is affecting women in India's informal economy.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm honored to share that my retrospective book, A Period in Time: Looking Back While Moving Forward, 1977–2022, was awarded 1st place in the Documentary Photography Book category by the International Photography Awards.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To celebrate Labor Day, we should also honor the truth behind it: workers built the wealth, won the protections, and workers still have to defend them. Labor Day should honor them by demanding more than gratitude. It should demand power, fairness, and a larger share of the wealth workers create.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Nandaben Parmer, a farmer in Gujarat, India carries out her fieldwork under an unrelenting sun. More than 100 days a year, she works through temperatures over 100 degrees to run her farm, raise a family, and employ relatives and neighbors while battling the economics of small-scale agriculture.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dr Ira Byock has long taught that these are the four phrases worth saying to someone before you're forced to say goodbye: "Please forgive me. I forgive you. Thank you. I love you." Dr. Byock runs a world-renowned program for palliative care at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"There Are Rivers in the Sky" by Elif Shafak left me thinking about how many rivers I've photographed over the years— the way it moves through and connects people's lives over time, all serving as a witness to poverty, ritual, environmental damage, and daily survival.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For my newest project, Overheated, I followed three women working in India's vast informal economy to document the impact of extreme heat. One of those women is Valiben Makwana, a street vendor in Ahmedabad, India, who works long days selling produce on blistering asphalt.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Twenty years ago, I documented the disappearance of Arab Christians in Taybeh. Today, settlers terrorize the village while the Israeli military declares it a closed zone—ostensibly to stop violence, but locals say it's to block observers. The struggle has only intensified.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Visual Riffs: Rivers None of these pictures were made with rivers as the assignment. But looking at them now, I realize how much these rivers told about the place, the politics, and the people—often without me fully realizing it at the time.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Photo of the Day — Fishermen lay a net on the beach, with the Indian Ocean behind, near the village of Balliputtuga, India, on Jan. 27, 2016. These fishermen were experiencing the beginnings of kidney disease due to the brutal impact of heat, a topic I still cover ten years later.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Only one week left to purchase Visual Riffs at a 20% discount! This limited-edition book reimagines 45+ years of my work, featuring photographs from 100+ countries that explore social, poli... www.edkashi.com/books/visual-riff?u…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

For our latest project, "Overheated", we followed three women working in India's vast informal economy — among the most exposed and least protected people on the planet. Read... edkashi378614.substack.com/p/overhe…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

These photos are from a chapter in my Visual Riffs book covering intimacy – the hardest and most satisfying aspect of the human experience to photograph. What strikes me looking back at these images is how consistent the grammar of family is, no matter where I was standing.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

OSHA is stripping inspection targets, and Congress wants to block heat protections before they even exist; I'm not surprised, I'm angry. This isn't just a regulatory story— It's about whose bodies are considered expendable in unregulated heat. It doesn't disappear because the paperwork changes.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

From now through August 21, you can purchase a copy of my limited-edition book, Visual Riffs, at a 20% discount Don't miss this opportunity to add this special book to your collection. www.edkashi.com/books/visual-riff?u…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

From now through August 21, you can purchase a copy of my limited-edition book, Visual Riffs, at a 20% discount. Don't miss this opportunity to add this special book to your collection. www.edkashi.com/books/visual-riff?u…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Looking back at my journal musings from 2010, I see how far I've traveled. I'm more balanced now – less strung out, with more room for family and the small daily things that actually make a life worth living, while still working, still making things.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Sacrifice Zones are not accidents of geography. They are the result of decisions made quietly in boardrooms and regulatory offices, decisions that some communities matter less. No community should ever be deemed unworthy of protection.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Zulu students enjoy an afternoon at Durban Beach, South Africa, in 1998. During the apartheid era, this beach was reserved exclusively for white South Africans. Although the Zulus are South Africa's largest ethnic group, many remain trapped by apartheid's legacy of poverty, inequality, and violence.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

In 2017, Trump's inauguration crowd had felt comparatively subdued, while the Women's March the next day seemed limitless, radiating energy, purpose, and mome... edkashi378614.substack.com/p/e64299…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

In my recent article, Foster Care for the Elderly, I reflect on the challenges of aging in America and more humane and compassionate models... open.substack.com/pub/edkashi378614…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

In my recent article, In Her Company, I wrote about 90-year-old Maria Catharina de Jager-Alderding's remarkable life - one marked by resilience, devotion, warmth, and curiosity. Read ... substack.com/@edkashi378614/p-19771…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In my latest Substack article, I wrote about going undercover in a Kansas nursing home to document the misuse of antipsychotic drugs on elderly residents. ... edkashi378614.substack.com/p/chemic…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

On World Refugee Day, we must remind ourselves that while the war has ended and Syrians are trying to build a new world from the rubble, as many as six million Syrians ... talkingeyesmedia.org/documentary/sy…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Inmates at the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed Center in Alabama receive inhalation therapy to relieve the symptoms of emphysema. The recent emphasis on longer prison sentences has led to the growth of overcrowded geriatric prison wards with chronically ill inmates.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Visual Riff: What We Carry I never realized how physical life could be until I started photographing it. These images are evidence of how we live – the daily acts of labor, care, survival, and devotion that sustain our lives and reveal what connects us.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

A recent Washington Post article on Pentecostalism in Africa states that the faith has grown from 13 million to 252.3 million worshippers in just 50 years, faster than any Christian denomination. I have been lucky enough to document this growth during my many work trips to Nigeria.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Today is World Environment Day, a reminder that we all have a role to play in protecting the places we call home. If you want to learn how to document pressing issues, join my i... @natgeo www.natgeoshop.nl/bootcamp25-englis…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I went undercover into a U.S. nursing home to investigate a quiet, systemic practice— overusing drugs on residents not for care, but for control. This is just one story— but a reflection of what's happening behind closed doors in nursing homes all across the country.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Join me TOMORROW for a FREE special in-person talk and book signing at the Griffin Museum of Photography (@griffinmuseum)! June 2, 2026 | 6 – 7:30pm | Griffin Museum of Photography griffinmuseum.org/event/kashi_photo…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Join my 2-day intensive photography workshop with @natgeo in Amsterdam, October 18th and 19th. With the stunning city of Amsterdam as our inspiration, I'll be bringing my 45 years of exp... www.natgeoshop.nl/bootcamp25-englis…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Join me next week for a FREE special in-person talk and book signing at The Griffin Museum of Photography! I'll be discussing work from my new book, A Period In Time, and sharing my 4... griffinmuseum.org/event/kashi_photo…

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

For 30 years, I have photographed American soldiers, and what has moved me most is the resilience of veterans. My purpose in doing this work is simple: to honor their courage, to hold up a mirror for those of us at home, and to insist that we reckon honestly with the human cost of war.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'm honored to have two images from my ongoing book project, American Sketches, chosen for American Photography 42. Both of these images, taken in MS and TX, reflect the quiet, everyday moments that forge a community. It reminds us that there is a shared humanity in the diversity of America.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

There is an intimacy in refusal, and loneliness in being the one refused. These images live in that discomfort— moments when this uneasy transaction succeeded and when it failed. Perhaps it tells a more honest story of what it means to look, and to be looked at, in a world already watching too hard.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

May 17th. International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. The struggle for LGBTQ+ rights is not a closed chapter — it is ongoing, uneven, and in many places, moving backwards. Human rights are not negotiable. They are not a spectrum. They simply are, or they aren't.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Commuters at Ramses Station in Cairo, Egypt, 1992. Inside Ramses Station, I felt the city's pulse: bodies streaming past, announcements ricocheting off old walls, locomotives rumbling through the noise. So I slowed my shutter and let Cairo write itself in motion.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Today, with the fear of war and unchecked power in democratic institutions, the temptation to go numb is real — but numbness is surrender, which we cannot afford. Photographs cannot stop a war, but they can make it impossible to ignore what's happening. That is why we still show up — why we must.

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Ed Kashi @edkashi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In collaboration with @talkingeyesmedia and @mediastorm, we produced a 15-minute experimental film, The Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook, excerpted here — derived from over 26,000 images shot for a @natgeo story covering Iraqi Kurdistan. It was my first major story shot with a digital camera.

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