Ice Angel Photograph

Todd Jay Weinstein is a photographer whose work spans a wide range of genres from documentary and street photography to abstract and commercial work. A native of Detroit, Weinstein has been based in New York City since the early 1970s. Weinstein is known for his street photography depicting the ups and downs of life, particularly in New York, and for his abstract images using Jewish lore to explore universal themes of suffering and redemption. A selection of Weinstein’s street photography was published in 1991 in the book Personal Journalism: A Decade of Color Photography, 1980-1990. His work documenting the resurgence of Jewish life in Germany has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad, and his series “The 36 Unknown,” a group of abstract images based on a Jewish legend of redemption, has been exhibited around the world to much critical acclaim. Most recently, Weinstein has been working on a series of abstract images that explore Biblical themes and Jewish lore. Weinstein’s photographs have been exhibited at such venues as The Detroit Institute of Arts, the Holocaust Memorial Center in Detroit, the National Humanities Center in North Carolina, The New York Public Library, as well as New York’s Howard Greenberg Gallery, Midtown Y Photography Gallery, Pace/MacGill Gallery, and Yeshiva University Museum. Weinstein’s work has been acquired by twelve major collections, including The Museum of the City of New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and La Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. Weinstein’s photos have also been published in numerous high-profile magazines, among them Blindspot, Forbes, German Life, Popular Photography, Time, and Life. Weinstein has over four decades of experience as a commercial photographer. His client list includes American Express, AT&T, Canon, The Detroit Institute of Arts, IBM, NBC, New York Telephone, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, Trisha Brown Dance Company, W.R. Grace and Company, Western Electric, the YMCA, and more than a dozen design firms.