Jon Lowenstein

Background

About Jon Lowenstein

Jon Lowenstein is an American documentary photographer. He is a member and owner of NOOR photo agency, a cooperative photojournalist agency located in the Netherlands and owner of NOOR IMAGES photojournalist agency based in the United States. Lowenstein has spent the past decade engaging his adopted community on Chicago’s South Side through photography. During this time Lowenstein has also traveled, studied and documented the experiences of undocumented Latin Americans living throughout the United States. Shadow Lives USA follows the migrant trail from Central America, through Mexico and throughout the United States in an effort to tell the real stories of the men and women who make up the largest transnational migration in world history. This project, unique in its breadth and intimate scope, forces the viewer to engage with the impact of America’s punitive immigration and economic policies on some of the United States’ most vulnerable populations. His international assignments have included covering elections in Afghanistan to the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti to social violence in Guatemala. He completed a project about the impact of inhaled nitric oxide on cerebral Malaria in Ugandan Children. He has also worked in countries like Brazil, El Salvador, South Africa, Mexico and Germany.