Frederic Brenner

For over 25 years, photographer Frederic Brenner has travelled the world to document the lives of Jews on five continents, creating the first exhaustive visual anthology of the Jewish Diaspora.

He has had solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, New York; the Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles; and the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne.

Winner of the 1992 Prix de Rome, among other awards, Brenner has directed an original film, The Last Marranos, inspired a DVD/CD-ROM, Diaspora (2003) and has published several books, including Jerusalem: Instants D’Eternite (1984), Israel (1988), Marranes (1992), Jews/America/A Representation (1996), Exile at Home (1998) and Diaspora: Homelands in Exile (2003).

Born in Paris in 1959, Brenner has a Master’s degree in social anthropology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.