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Undergraduate Degree |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Don Gurewitz is an award-winning photographer and inveterate world traveler whose wanderings have taken him to more than fifty countries on five continents. He is a long time Boston-area resident and political and trade union activist. Until 2001, he made his living for 20 years as a machinist for General Electric Co. in Lynn, MA. A periodic victim of “downsizing”, his travels until 2001 were accomplished for the most part during periods of layoff from GE.
Don's photographs have won awards from various publications, from the Boston Globe to Today's Photographer, and have appeared in many exhibits in the United States and Europe. Most recent recognition includes nominations in the International Color Awards 2007 Photography Masters Cup, and nominations and Peoples’ Choice awards in the 2007 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris.
His images are held in numerous private, institutional, and corporate collections.
His work has been published in magazines as diverse as American Photo, Popular Photography, Photographic, and Solidarity, the magazine of the United Auto Workers Union. He was a featured photographer in the November 2002 issue of Photo Life, Canada's premier photography magazine, and in the May 2003 issue of the U.S. photography magazine, Shutterbug. His images have appeared in Nikon and Graphique de France calendars. He has contributed to several annual photographic survey books, including the 1998 inaugural issue of Amateur Photography I from Graphis publishers, and five recent issues of Best of Photography Annual from Serbin publishers. More than 100 of his international images are featured in the companion books The Good House Book and Building Green published by Lark Press in 2004 and 2005. His photos appear in other books by Lark, Houghton Mifflin, Workman, various university presses, and other publishers. He exhibits frequently in the Boston area and elsewhere. He is an accomplished public speaker and a frequent slide lecturer to school, campus, and community audiences throughout the country.
“For most of my coworkers the layoffs were a disaster. I was one of the lucky few for whom there was a silver lining: the layoffs gave me time to travel. I tried to take full advantage of this mixed blessing. I have been amazed and awed by what I have seen. I hope people will find in my images, not only the eye of a photographer and artist, but also the eye of someone with a social sensitivity, and the eye of someone who appreciates deeply the privilege of being able to see so much of the rich and varied cultures and natural places of our world.”
“Traditional documentary/photojournalism has a hard time being placed in art galleries. Often people don't want to be reminded of what the rest of the world is like…Don Gurewitz's photography
is of such pure sensibility personally and politically that people of all facets of life need to see it.
Gurewitz cares enough to document the forgotten regions of the world. He and the subjects in his images deserve to be better known. His photography elevates society and design simultaneously.”
---Lou Jones, Photographer. Proprietor
of Gallery ISO
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