EDWARD GRAZDA
(American, b.1947)

Born in Flushing, Queens, Edward Grazda studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. During the 1970s he photographed in Latin America. From 1980 through 2004 he photographed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in 2005 and 2006 he photographed in Oman. He is the author of Afghanistan Diary 1992-2000 (PowerHouse Books, 2000) and Afghanistan 1980-1989 (DerAlltag, 1990). He is the co-author of NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York (PowerHouse Books, 2002) with text by Jerrilynn Dodds. In the fall of 2015, A Last Glance: Trading Posts of the Four Corners was published by PowerHouse books. His most recent publication, Asia Calling: A Photographer’s Notebook 1980 -1997, was published by PowerHouse books in the fall of 2021.

Grazda’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Double Take, and Granta, and is in numerous collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, among others. He has received grants from The New York Foundation For the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts and has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow four times. Grazda is a co-founder of Errata Editions, a publishing company dedicated to making rare photo books accessible with its Books on Books series.