Ernesto Bazan was born in Palermo, Italy and currently lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. He received his first camera when he was fourteen year old and began photographing his native city and some rural areas of Sicily. In 2002, Ernesto Bazan created his own photography workshops providing special emphasis in Latin America. He is the author of several books including: The Perpetual Past (1982), and Passing Through(1993). In 2008, he founded BazanPhotos Publishing with his students and began self-publishing his books that include BazanCuba (2008), Al Campo (2011), Isla (2014), and Before You Grow Up (2017). He has also helped some of his best students self-publish their books with BPP. He has won some of the world’s most prestigious photographic awards, among them the World Press Photo award, the W. Eugene Smith Grant, and fellowships from the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
