The Photography of Jed Kirschbaum '67 - The Taft School

Grayson Gilbert, 6, of Towson left a note beneatha statue called “The Healer” at the entrance toJohns Hopkins Hospital before his surgery forpancreatic cancer. On a recent office visit toHopkins, he asked his mother if they could go thelong way out and see the statue. I have lost touchwith his family but as far as I know his cancer wentinto remission. (MAY 1996)Chaquon Whitfield wasseverely burned in a housefire when she was threeyears old, but she hasn’tlet her scars limit her. Sheis currently enrolled in theSchool for the PerformingArts and dreams of beinga star someday. I found outas I was working on a storyon her, that I had beenthe photographer whocovered the fire…. I hadphotographed her twelveyears earlier being carriedto an ambulance. (2006)To see more of Jed’s work, visitwww.baltimoresun.com and choose“photo essays” under Multimedia.Jed Kirschbaum ’67 has been a staff photographer for the Baltimore Sun since 1978 after working on The Dispatch in Union City,New Jersey, where he was named New Jersey Press Photographer of the Year (1978). He has a bachelor’s in English from the JohnsHopkins University (1971), and a degree in photojournalism from the University of Missouri (1976). His work has been usedby the Associated Press and United Press International, published in Smithsonian Magazine, Time, Newsweek and U.S. News &World Report, and annuals of The Best of Photojournalism. He has covered assignments in Africa, Central America, the South Pacific,Mexico and across the U.S. for the Baltimore Sun. He has been the photographer for two books on Chesapeake Bay Cooking.His work has been exhibited in several art galleries and colleges in Maryland.22 Taft Bulletin Spring 2007