© Jaime Permuth, 2025
Set in Guatemala, a country utterly torn-apart by violence, El Sistema is a photographic document of symphonic youth orchestras and how the fellowship and discipline of learning classical music brings hope, self-esteem and the joy of culture to the lives of thousands of children who so desperately need it.
I am thrilled that a selection of 25 images from the project will be on view in Seoul, Korea as part of the Suwon International Photo Festival.
I’m honored to be a Finalist in this year's FELIFA Publication Prize in Buenos Aires. Fingers crossed - and a little prayer - for "The Street Becomes"!
Congratulations as well to my friends and colleagues Santiago Escobar Jaramillo, Juan Orrantia and Jose Diniz for being among the Finalists as well.
Winner to be announced on November 3d.
Gracias jurado de Feria de Libros de Fotos de Autor - FELIFA!
Shana Tova / Happy New Year 5779
"I gave you, for
your earlobes, for your fingers,
I gilded the time on your wrist,
I hung many shining things on you
so that you'd move in the wind
for me, chime softly over my head,
to soothe my sleep."
Words from Yehuda Amichai, "Love Gifts"
and a photograph from my series "Manhattan Mincha Map".
Good morning, Taos! We started the day off with waffles, coffee and a little Coltrane. Farmers market in Taos next. Now a two hour mountain hike before lunch. This afternoon students get individual half hour portfolio review sessions with the instructors. Then some down time before another one of Jonathan’s amazing home cooked festive dinners. Day one at Antidote Retreat.
The Meaning of Life according to Instagram:
#love 1,374,073,054
#hate 6,732,467
#hunger 1,204,553
#thirst 1,209,136
#hot 117,643,278
#cold 36,226,922
#high 12,714,045
#low 5,100,306
#friends 327,052, 786
#family 275,778,492
#home 104,724,492
#foe 2,336,545
#nature 344,158,164
#city 62,312,443
#job 16,457,859
#school 37,480,035
#soldier 2,954,696
#farm 10,221,827
#hands 4,785,269
#face 30,872,625
#tears 2,854,540
#laughter 4,053,562
#sky 176,923,972
#ocean 49,016,165
#mountains 49,018,069
#river 25,308,187
#snow 72,905,742
#flowers 129,930,024
#tree 45,445,443
#moonlight 5,066,763
#solitude 1,320,641
#poetry 22,489,239
#joy 19,575,990
#pain 9,421,365
#celebrate 11,367,147
#wedding 122,454,908
#funeral 522,641
#children 20,979,444
#war 4,969,215
#peace 61,777,106
#speed 12,203,536
#anxiety 8,808,445
#desire 2,413,078
#kiss 33,696,142
#morning 84,818,656
#sunset 184,190,231
#fly 14,275,518
#art 391,873,183
#public 1,191,773
#private 1,718,801
#sex 11,968,605
#toys 12,007,945
#photography 284,111,173
#writing 11,375,094
#puppies 20,999,161
#kitten 32,790,781
#bath 6,864,252
#coffee 93,914,804
#food 288,192,230
#drinks 32,792,556
#music 207,793,053
#dance 65,345,960
#party 134,248,741
#girls 139,310,602
#guys 11,899,949
#icecream 32,266,656
#fame 2,795,575
#fortune 1,284,580
#birthday 91,218,613
#death 7,433, 349
#lonely 6,058,649
#god 30,618,842
#blue 111,845,633
I spent last week with a group of fifteen talented and precocious teenagers at NYFA Photography.
We had an amazing workshop in and out of the studio. Participants had a chance to try their hand at street portraiture, street photography, urban landscapes and studio lighting.
Here’s a portrait of Briana by Marygrace using a single, continuous light source. I’ll definitely be missing these young men and women.
So excited to have “The Street Becomes” place among the 10 Finalists for the 2018 Fiebre Dummy Awards. The winner will have a book published at Artes Gráficas Palermo in Madrid. Wish me luck!
Last week I had the great pleasure of welcoming Yana Nosenko, a young photographer from Moscow for an intensive one-on-one photography workshop. We focused mainly on street and documentary practice, including one really fun, experimental day using off-camera flash and wireless triggers.
📷 Yana Nosenko
“Immigrants practicing their tightrope skills on the 4th of July”.
That’s how I might caption this photograph.
Life providing comment on the state of the nation.
I swear, you could never script the stuff you see in the real world.
Day 2 / Private Workshop
July 4th, who will save us?
Destination: Central Park, the great green heart of New York City. Could the park - its meadows, boulders, lush trees and its flock of humanity - help us get a pulse on the mood of the city?
Celebration or lamentation?
Something in between?
Day 1 / Private Workshop
Yana, a young photographer from Moscow arrived yesterday in New York to pursue a week-long intensive workshop under my guidance. After corresponding for the past month, this morning we met over coffee at La Colombe to discuss her specific goals and objectives in greater depth and together determine how best to achieve them.
Despite her jet lag and the grueling heat wave, Yana and I had a blast shooting in the East Village. We crashed a picnic or two and met some fascinating New Yorkers along the way. To get some of our strength back, we wrapped things up with a late lunch of roast chicken, rice and beans at "El Rinconcito" on 10th St and Ave C.
Feel free to DM me if you’d like more information on how to study privately with me in New York City.
So pleased to be among the Finalists of the GetxoPhoto Open Call "Post Conflict Reframing a Dialogue" with my series "The Street Becomes". The winner will be announced next week in Getxo, Pais Vasco, Spain.
I saw Norman from a distance and immediately felt drawn to him. I half-jokingly asked if he had been an actor at any point in his life. He replied that he had dabbled in singing for a few years.
Some people have so much charisma and presence they transform any street corner into a stage.
Aside from serving as a Faculty member at the School of Visual Arts and at New York Film Academy, starting this summer I'll be offering private workshops and one-on-one mentoring.
New York City is an unforgettable destination to experience through the lens. It is also fascinating and endlessly stimulating as a cultural mecca.
The workshops are specifically tailored to the individual needs of each student and the goals they wish to accomplish. Instruction includes hands-on shooting sessions, critique of images, developing editing skills, conceptualizing personal projects and visits to galleries and museums.
I have a student coming in from Moscow for a week-long workshop in July and I will also be teaching at Antidote Photo Retreat in Taos, New Mexico the second week in August.
Other than that, drop me a line and we can discuss in more detail.
The Permanent Collection of Guatemala’s Museum of Modern Art is a repository for some of the most dazzling and splendid works of art created in my native country.
It gives me great pleasure to announce that this diptych from my series “The Street Becomes” is now a part of the Collection. I congratulate my brother Igal Permuth and my father Mario Permuth for having their works represented there as well!
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Me complace enormemente anunciar que este díptico de la serie “The Street Becomes” ha sido adquirido para la Colección Permanente del Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno en Guatemala. La misma es un espléndido repositorio que reúne grandes joyas de nuestro patrimonio artístico nacional.
Felicito a mi padre Mario Permuth y a mi hermano Igal Permuth pues sus respectivas obras han ingresado también a la colección.
Photograph magazine is the bible for the industry.
So nice to see "Harlem Perspectives" at Faction Art Projects listed with one of my images. Exhibition closes May 13th!
Save the date!
I’m giving an Artist Talk this coming Sunday 2PM at Faction Art Projects.
A second talk follows mine, by the always fascinating and provocative Renee Cox.
Free and open to the public.
A great night in Harlem: extraordinary art, stimulating conversations, and four works from my series The Street Becomes on view as part of "Harlem Perspectives" at Faction Art Projects.
My secret agent, Hye-Ryoung Min, delivered this sneak preview of my upcoming exhibition at Faction Art Projects! Four images from my series The Street Becomes are featured in "Harlem Perspectives. Opening tomorrow night, April 19th!
On April 5th, our three-person exhibition "Máscaras, Rumores y Otros Vuelos" opened to great fanfare at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Guatemala City. The days leading up to it had been intense with a flurry of media requests, including two live appearances on National TV morning shows and additional taped segments for the evening news hour, as well as a live radio interview on Radio Infinita's "Con Criterio" program and feature articles on all of the country's dailies.
Before the public arrived at the museum, Mario, Igal and I took a moment to reflect upon and enjoy just how beautifully installed the work was and how much this exhibition meant to our family. Than night we had over seven hundred people visit the exhibition. It truly was a milestone in our shared tradition of artistic practice.
