STUDIO

Max Hirshfeld Washington, DC 202.363.4660 max@maxpix.com

PRODUCER

Nina Mason 202.262.1411 nina@maxpix.com

GALLERIES

Hemphill Artworks 202.234.5601 Robert Klein Gallery 617.267.7997

SYNDICATION

Gallery Stock 212.356.0099 Redux Pictures 212.253.0399

SUPPORT

PhotoPolitic Visura The Eye of Photography

COLLECTIONS

Kreeger Museum of Art

National Portrait Gallery

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Weiner Holocaust Library

Yad Vashem

ABOUT

I grew up in a house full of books and music to parents who survived Auschwitz and settled in small-town Alabama. My father, a child prodigy who played piano with The Warsaw Philharmonic at the age of nine, pushed me to explore the arts with a curiosity born from generations of intellectual and artistic pursuits. After five years as a staff photographer with The Smithsonian and a career-altering week at The University of Missouri photojournalism workshop in 1978, I opened a studio in Washington shooting for advertising, design and editorial clients.

In 1993, I escorted my mother on her first return to Poland in forty-six years and photographed her attempt at closure. This rare gift gave me a fresh appreciation for the power of photography and added a new dimension to my work: respect for the great traditions of documentary photography wedded to a love of humanity. Years of practice in the analog world in now meshed with a loving embrace of digital technologies and keeps me thrilled to be still shooting.

PUBLICATIONS + AWARDS

2020 American Photography 2020 Communication Arts — Photography Annual 2019 Photo Lucida — Finalist 2017 Creative Quarterly 2016 One Eyeland — Best of the Best 2016 B+W Spider Awards 2015 B+W Spider Awards 2015 Graphis — Photography Annual 2014 PX3 — Prix de la Photographie 2013 Communication Arts — Photography Annual 2012 Photo District News — How I Got That Shot 2011 B+W Spider Awards 2011 PX3 — Prix de la Photographie 2006 Eyemazing — One Shot 2004 Photo District News — Photography Annual 2002 Photo District News — Photography Annual 2000 Communication Arts — Photography Annual

BOOKS

Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime

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