Jonathan Grado

Photographer, Creative Director

Brooklyn, NY

9:33:14 am

Overthinking at 3am.

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a

multidisciplinary

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Brooklyn, NY

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jonathan grew up on the workbenches of Grado Labs, the audio company founded in 1953. Combining his passion for photography and design, he helped guide the Brooklyn headphone company into its seventh decade while honoring its legacy of three generations of sound.

A conceptual photographer, Jonathan creates surreal, cinematic narratives shaped by the tension between melancholy and anticipation. He is fascinated by how memories are impossible to truly return to, shifting when handled too often. Through tonal misalignment and hand-altered materials, his images create a world of intentional dissonance.

Projects

A24 Films

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

Jonathan brought Grado Labs to Mashable's Top Eight Most Social Small Companies, and has collaborated with companies such as Pokémon (childhood dream) and A24 Films (grownup childhood dream). He’s been featured in a commercial for American Express, and on shows for NBC, CNN, and Vice, among others.

Jonathan Grado sitting on a chair on a red velvet stage wearing an open dandelion shirt and white sneakers.

Jonathan grew up watching headphones go from napkin sketches to finished pieces of equipment. That early exposure to fidelity, where the goal was perfect audio reproduction, now informs, and subtly foils, his creative work. His artistic practice deconstructs fidelity, composing images where memory and fiction find resonance.