Jed Fielding

An internationally recognized street photographer, Jed Fielding has made photographs for over forty-eight years, working extensively in Peru, Greece, Egypt, Spain, France, Mexico, Italy, and the United States. Inspired by mentors Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan, Fielding explores the diversity of emotion, culture, and humanity through his art. Fielding's photographs have been widely collected and exhibited, and are represented in private and public collections, including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Art Institute of Chicago; International Center of Photography, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The Goldman Sachs Collection, New York. His monograph, City of Secrets: Photographs of Naples by Jed Fielding, was published in 1998 by The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago) and Takarajima Books (New York and Tokyo). His second monograph, Look at Me: Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding, was published in 2009 by the University of Chicago Press.  In 2000, he was awarded an Illinois Artists Fellowship. Born in Boston, Mr. Fielding lives and works in Chicago.