Photographer Marc Asnin says he first saw pure love for incarcerated Jews when he visited a prison in Florida with the Aleph Institue's Rabbi Menachem Katz. Above, Katz blew the shofar for prisoners before Rosh Hashanah. Photo by Marc Asnin
Photographer Marc Asnin Chronicles the Humanity of the Down-and-Out
Growing up in the upwardly mobile Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., award-winning photographer Marc Asnin says he was always a “loud and proud Jew” with a big heart and a deep concern for the underdog and the bullied—the kinds of people who have defined his professional life as a documentary photographer.
