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Misha Erwitt is
a native New Yorker and freelance photographer.
He was a staff photographer for eleven years at New York’s “picture
newspaper", the New York Daily News, where he developed his sharp
eye for street photography and clever visual juxtapositions. During that
time he covered a wide range of editorial assignments ranging from local
news to national political conventions, presidential campaigns and
celebrity portraits. He traveled extensively, covering international
stories such as cocaine trafficking in South America, the Intifada in
Israel, the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany and the Pope’s
visit to Cuba. He was also associated with Magnum Photos for three years, traveling and working for magazines such as Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune and The New York Times Magazine as well as corporate annual report work. He traveled throughout Southeast Asia photographing the Karin rebels in Burma and Muslim refugees in Bangladesh. He spent time in the Philippines documenting the plight of the poverty stricken and shot and directed a short video for Japanese television entitled “Living With the Dead”, about a community living in a cemetery in Manila. He has worked on several of the “Day in the Life of .....” series books including China, Japan, Spain, Italy, Ireland, America, Canada, London and California. He has also been published in “Passage to Vietnam”, “The Power to Heal”, “Baseball in America”, “One Digital Day” and “Christmas in America”. His photographs have been exhibited at the International Center of Photography and Nikon House in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles. Misha’s work has most recently appeared in Time, Newsweek, Modern Maturity and The New York Times and he is currently accepting corporate assignments with an eye towards advertising. He continues to work on personal projects, a camera always on his shoulder.
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