Jon Lowenstein: South Side

Jon Lowenstein: South Side

MonoVisions Black & White Photo Contest 2025

Jon Lowenstein’s photographs show that photos are not stuck in a single moment, but can reveal a long and deeply felt story. His is a slow process built over decades. The documentary photographer’s themes are social injustice, racism, and systemic violence. With each project he develops deep, decades-long ties to the communities that he documents. His work on the situation of undocumented immigrants in the USA has already received a great deal of attention. For two decades Lowenstein has turned the camera lens to his own neighborhood, Chicago’s South Side. Often presented as a hotspot of social issues on the news, he uses his camera to record everyday life and transcend the headlines in collaborative and honest black-and-white photographs. Supplemented by oral histories, personal texts, and poetry the insight into the South Side deepens even further and fills the pictures with additional life.

Jon Lowenstein
South Side

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag( 2022)
Paperback: 208 pages
ISBN-13: 978-3775748476

Order: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jon-Lowenstein-South-Chlo%C3%A9-Zanni/dp/3775748474

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side

© Jon Lowenstein: South Side


MonoVisions Black & White Photo Contest 2025