a
multidisciplinary
photographer
born
and
raised
in
brooklyn, NY
Jonathan's series Happy Hour debuted at Satellite Art at SXSW in 2025, with later exhibitions at Black Box Gallery and L'appartement 49C. His work has been named an Editors' Pick in Art Photography by LensCulture, published in F-Stop Magazine, and recognized by the Homiens Art Prize.
A conceptual photographer, Jonathan creates surreal, cinematic narratives through practical effects and everyday objects. He is fascinated by how memories shift when handled too often, becoming impossible to return to. Cast as stand-ins, those objects take the emotional weight memory can't carry.
Projects
A24 Film
The Pokémon Company
SXSW
Bushmills + Elijah Wood
TechCrunch Disrupt
Le CouCou
Mini-Docs & Shows
American express
Buzzfeed
Great Big Story
Hypebeast
Mashable
NBC
VICELAND
jetBlue
Press & Features
AWWWARDS
CNN
Chicago Tribune
Design Milk
Dwell
Esquire
Fast Company
GQ
Gizmodo
The Dieline
The Verge
VICE
WIRED
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Born in Brooklyn, Jonathan grew up on the workbenches of Grado Labs, the audio company his family founded in 1953. He helped guide the headphone company into its seventh decade by focusing on art, design, and storytelling, including collaborations with Pokémon (childhood dream) and A24 Films (grownup childhood dream). He also distracted himself from his stage fright long enough to appear in a commercial for American Express, and on shows for NBC, CNN, and Vice.
Watching headphones go from napkin sketches to finished equipment was an early exposure to fidelity, the pursuit of perfect audio reproduction. It's what his work now takes apart, trading accuracy for something closer to how a memory returns.