The Most Read Stories of 2023: Jade Doskow, BASH '96, Searches for the Light as NYC Photographer

by Jane Stahl

As a high school student, New York-based architectural and landscape photographer Jade Doskow enjoyed afternoons buried in the novels of Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky with plans to major in Russian literature preparing her for the life of a literary scholar.

Instead, following a bad accident from her job as bike courier, she began a series of photographic self-portraits that led to a project that replicated the novelist’s tone and vision of the world in images that are often dark and haunting--described as “eerily poetic” as they capture moments where people, architecture, nature, and time come together in a moment—and then move on.

To read the entire story and see Jade's captivating photos, click here.   

[Editor's Note--  Since we published this article in February 2023, Jade's career and body of work have continued to grow. To learn more about Jade and her work, simply use your web browser to search for her name.]

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