Jenia Fridlyand

Jenia Fridlyand (Moscow, 1975) is a photographer and educator based in New York City and the Hudson Valley, USA. Fridlyand’s artist’s book "Entrance to Our Valley" was shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award 2017, and the trade edition (TIS Books, USA) is now in its 3rd printing. Her subsequent body of work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Fototeca de Cuba in 2023, and at Musée des Beaux-Arts de…

Jenia Fridlyand (Moscow, 1975) is a photographer and educator based in New York City and the Hudson Valley, USA. Fridlyand’s artist’s book "Entrance to Our Valley" was shortlisted for the Paris Photo - Aperture First Photobook Award 2017, and the trade edition (TIS Books, USA) is now in its 3rd printing. Her subsequent body of work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Fototeca de Cuba in 2023, and at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse in 2026. It was recently released as a monograph, "Mango Season", by an imprint project, the Agency, which Fridlyand and John Gossage launched in partnership with Steidl Verlag. She is represented by Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam. Fridlyand holds an MFA from the University of Hartford’s International Limited-Residency program. She is a co-founder of Image Threads, a non-profit educational collective, and is the founding chair of the Long Term Photobook Program at Penumbra Foundation in New York.