Ernesto Bazan

Ernesto Bazan (born 1959) is an Italian photographer, living in the United States. Cuba has been a major subject of his work. Bazan has received a 1st prize at the World Press Photo contest, the Lange-Taylor Prize, and the W. Eugene Smith Grant. He has had a solo exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C. and his work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Early life Bazan was born and grew up in Palermo, Sicily. His father was a doctor.

He started taking photographs as a teenager and at age 17 decided to become a photographer. Two years later, he moved to New York City to study photography and began working internationally. In 2016, after the death of Fidel Castro, Bazan again visited Cuba which provided the material for the book 25 de Noviembre (2020).

Before You Grow Up (2017) is a family album for his sons. In it, "photographs are mixed with drawings, letters, his mother's journal entries, memorabilia and notebook pages." According to James Estrin in The New York Times, Before You Grow Up "captures the joys and sorrows of 21st-century family life" and "is about the importance of family and the fragility of life". Al Campo. Self-published, 2011. . With an afterword by Colin Westerbeck. Isla. Self-published, 2014. Before You Grow Up. Self-published, 2017. Photographs "mixed with drawings, letters, his mother's journal entries, memorabilia and notebook pages." 2000: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York City

Exhibitions Raw Poetry: Ernesto Bazan and Cuba, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., September 2023 – January 2024

Collections Bazan's work is held in the following permanent collections: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: 4 prints (as of 21 March 2024) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX: 2 prints (as of 21 March 2024) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA: 2 prints (as of 21 March 2024)