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Jon Henry
PHOTOGRAPHER
Graduated from NYFA NYC in 2010
Recognized as a top emerging artist by LensCulture (2019) and an En Foco fellow (2020), he won the Arnold Newman Grant (2020) and the Film Photo Prize from Kodak (2020) for Stranger Fruit.
Jon Henry is a photographer whose work centers on family, sociopolitical issues, grief, trauma, and healing in the African American community. His series Stranger Fruit, protesting racism and police brutality through images of African American mothers holding their sons as if lifeless, has been featured in PDN Magazine (2019), Jungle Magazine, and National Geographic (Oct 2020).
His work has appeared internationally and in galleries like Aperture Foundation, BRICC Brooklyn, and Smack Mellon. In 2021, Henry was named to TIME Magazine’s “TIME Next 100” and featured on the cover of JRNL 4.
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