Todd Jay Weinstein is a photographer and artist, born in Detroit, Michigan, and who now lives in New York City. He has studied Dick James in Detroit Michigan, after moving to New York City in 1970 Todd started working at the Gaslight folk music club which move to upstairs at Max's Kansas City. Todd started to assistant to photographers, Mel Dixion, Harvey LLoyd working in image and sound and worked taught with his mentor and teacher Ernst Haas from 1972-1986, working as a freelance photographer since 1973 to present for Audio/Visual presentation for museums, corporate work, as a producers of documentary films has lectured and teaching in the USA and abroad, published many articles, and won several awards and honors, including Artist-in-Residence, Germany for his project "Darkness into light: Re-emergence of Jewish Life in Germany". One goal of "Darkness into Light" was to "add insight into the Jewish culture that is moving forward in post-Holocaust Germany." Mr. Weinstein's work on that project led to the more abstract "The Thirty-Six Unknown". In 1994, Todd Weinstein was invited by the German government to be an artist in residence in Germany. After the photographs from that period were developed, he picked up the many threads of his past experiences and began using the photographs toward a project on the re-emergence of Jewish culture in Germany. Most recently he produced a documentary titled Making Their Mark for the German Consulate General of New York. Focuses on German American heritage celebrating 400 years of Germans coming to America. He is the co founder of http://www.onclicknyc.com and PROSPEKT. Todd 30 year retrospective at the Detroit Holocaust Memorial Center in Detroit showed. his work on Jewish themes titled Light Is My Voice Images, Legends and Abstractions. Todd Was also was one the founders and became the director the Union Square Gallery 1980- 1990. Todd change the gallery the name to The Union Square Gallery Ernst Haas viewing Room after Ernst death in 1986. The Gallery showed many different artists: Louis Stettner, Sid Kaplan, Maggie Steber, Eugene Richards, Ed Grazda, Barry Kornbluh, Tore Johnson, Tom Brand, Arlene Gottfried, Carlos Rena Perez, Sid Kaplan, to name a few, and also outside curator Greg Master. The gallery showed emerging and famous artists with a community spirit. Todd working as a street photography which he published titled "Personal journalism a Decadeof Color Photography" 1980-1990 to celebrate 10 years of the Union Square gallery Ernst Haas viewing Room. Other books "The 36 Unknown" published by pix4notes, Paris, France, September 11 published by pix4notes, Paris, France. He is now working on a dummy book. on his "The Prophets".l And contiinues his teaching of workshops in the inspiration of his mentor and teacher Ernst Haas.
