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. https://www.edkashi.com/books/visual-riff?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Ed%20Kashi

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.

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.

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.

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.

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... https://edkashi378614.substack.com/p/e6429948-55cb-4409-a791-66c646b4f040?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Ed%20Kashi

In my recent article, Foster Care for the Elderly, I reflect on the challenges of aging in America and more humane and compassionate models... https://open.substack.com/pub/edkashi378614/p/foster-care-for-the-elderly?r=2lc4i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true&utm_source=bluesky

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 ... https://substack.com/@edkashi378614/p-197718458?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Ed%20Kashi

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. ... https://edkashi378614.substack.com/p/chemical-restraint-in-american-nursing?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Ed%20Kashi

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 ... https://talkingeyesmedia.org/documentary/syrias-lost-generation?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Ed%20Kashi

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.

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.

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.

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 https://www.natgeoshop.nl/bootcamp25-english?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Ed%20Kashi

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.

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 https://griffinmuseum.org/event/kashi_photobook/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Ed%20Kashi

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... https://www.natgeoshop.nl/bootcamp25-english?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Ed%20Kashi

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... https://griffinmuseum.org/event/kashi_photobook/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Ed%20Kashi

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

While working on my project documenting Nigerian oil exploitation in 2006, I was illegally detained by the Nigerian military. In honor of World Press Freedom Day, we must remember the risks that press members take to tell stories that are necessary for the public to be informed about.

It's International Workers Day – a day to recognize and celebrate the immense contribution of workers around the world. While work is vital for many, we must consider those who work without protection, fair wages, or basic rights.

"What would I do with $12 million? This is my life. I poured everything I had into this. I don't eat anything but rice and beans. I just as soon go home with my workers." Read our most recent dis... https://edkashi378614.substack.com/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=Ed%20Kashi

I'm currently in Amsterdam, and I love it. While riding the tram, I noticed how the large windows allow one to photograph unnoticed. Some might find this intrusive, but I've always loved working from this position in the public sphere. I hope to continue working this way while I'm still here.