Born 1952 in Massachusetts (USA), based in New York.

Mitch Epstein began to make photographs in the early 1970s. His work is in museum collections throughout Europe and North America, including MoMA and the Whitney in New York, and he has had large solo exhibitions at museums and galleries such as Städtisches Kunstmuseum (Bonn) and Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (New York). After photographing in India in the 1980s and Vietnam in the '90s, Epstein returned his focus to America. He garnered critical acclaim for 《 Family Business 》 , a multimedia portrait of his father and the dying industrial town of Holyoke, Massachusetts; and cemented his reputation with the landmark 《 American Power 》 (2003-2009), a photographic series that juxtaposed images of US energy production sites - including nuclear facilities - and their communities with images of consumerism in an intricately rendered discourse on contemporary civilization.