photojournalist Archives – Jewish Journal

Ripple Effect: Safari as a Way of Life

Naomi Ackerman November 13, 2019

A French survivor becomes a legendary photojournalist

Danielle Berrin April 27, 2016

“The one thing that is very clear in my mind is that day in 1942, when the French police knocked on our door to come and take us,” Henri Dauman, 83, said, moments after taking his seat at a Beverly Hills café.

Gerda Straus Mathan

Jewish Journal September 16, 2004

Gerda Straus Mathan, a well-respected, Berkeley-based photographer of Jewish and other subjects who studied with Ansel Adams and lived for a time in Southern California, died Aug. 10 following a long illness. She was 83.

Diaspora Diversity Focus of ‘Portraits’

Diane Arieff July 17, 2003

An Argentine gaucho lounges near his horse. A Bombay bride displays her upturned palms, filigreed entirely with henna. An Ethiopian boy lights candles with a classmate. A woman poses stiffly in her kitchen in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. What unites these disparate images is that the people depicted in them are Jews, all of them captured in black and white by Israeli-born photojournalist Zion Ozeri.