Mark Abramson

Mark Abramson is a photographer based between Los Angeles and New York City. His journey of migrating as a child from the former Soviet Union through Europe to the United States with his family often inspires his storytelling.
Over the past decade, he has captured private moments of people he has shadowed longitudinally to the theater and drama that plays out in everyday moments on the streets. His roots are in newspaper, daily news photography from his time as an intern at the Washington Post and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Since 2011, he has been a freelance photographer in New York where he has documented politics, expanded into conceptual image making, and created long-term bodies of work on faith, spirituality, identity, and immigration. He has worked internationally and followed a migrant caravan through the interior of Mexico over months.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was the only photographer to embed with the Chevra Kadisha, a holy burial society, to document the impact of loss on the Orthodox Jewish Communities in New York.
He is a regular contributor to the New York Times and has worked on assignments and commissions for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The New Republic, TIME, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week, Arena Magazine, Wired, Wired Japan, Newsweek, El Nuevo Día, Univision, Getty Images, and others.