Don Gurewitz is an award-winning, self-taught photographer and inveterate world traveler whose wanderings have taken him to more than fifty countries on five continents. He is a long-time Boston-area resident and political and trade union activist. Until 2001, he made his living for 20 years as a machinist for General Electric Co. in Lynn, MA. A periodic victim of “downsizing”, his travels until 2001 were accomplished for the most part during periods of layoff from GE.
Don's photographs have won awards from various publications, from the Boston Globe to Today's Photographer, and have appeared in many exhibits in the United States and Europe. His images are held in numerous private, institutional, and corporate collections.
His work has been published in magazines as diverse as American Photo, Popular Photography, Photographic, and Solidarity, the magazine of the United Auto Workers Union. He was a featured photographer in the November 2002 issue of Photo Life, Canada's premier photography magazine, and in the May 2003 issue of the U.S. photography magazine, Shutterbug. His images have appeared in Nikon and Graphique de France calendars, and books by Lark, Houghton Mifflin, Workman, various university presses, and other publishers. He exhibits frequently in the Boston area and elsewhere. He is an accomplished public speaker and a frequent slide lecturer to school, campus, and community audiences throughout the country.
“For most of my coworkers the layoffs were a disaster. I was one of the lucky few for whom there was a silver lining: the layoffs gave me time to travel. I tried to take full advantage of this mixed blessing. I have been amazed and awed by what I have seen. I hope people will find in my images, not only the eye of a photographer and artist, but also the eye of someone with a social sensitivity, and the eye of someone who appreciates deeply the privilege of being able to see so much of the rich and varied cultures and natural places of our world.”