Jason Esekenazi is a photographer, curator and co-founder of the photobook publishing community Red Hook Editions. He lives in Queens, New York, where he grew up and went to university, taking a degree in psychology and American literature at Queens College. 

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 led Jason out of New York into the wider world and after trips to Germany and Romania he travelled to Russia in 1991, just before the August coup that marked the end of the Soviet Union. So began over a decade of return trips to the region which eventually culminated in Jason’s first book, Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith, which won Best Pho ...