About

An internationally recognized street photographer, Jed Fielding has been making photographs since 1967, working extensively in Peru, Greece, Egypt, Spain, Portugal, France, Mexico, the United States, and has been photographing in Italy for almost fifty years. 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; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; 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; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; 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). In 2000, he was awarded an Illinois Artists Fellowship. His second monograph, Look at me: Photographs from Mexico City by Jed Fielding, was published in 2009 by the University of Chicago Press. His exhibition, Encounter, was held at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), San Diego, in 2022. An accompanying monograph of the same title, which includes 96 reproductions, as well as essay and an interview, was published concurrently.

Born in Boston, Mr. Fielding lives in Chicago.

Marseille, 2016

On the street, Naples, 2016, Photograph of Jed Fielding by Mirko Silvestrini