Ed Panar

Ed Panar is a photographer and bookmaker whose interest in photography started in high school as an amateur, photographing his everyday surroundings, friends, and acquaintances. Meditating on the contrast between reality and photography has been a source of fascination for him ever since. Being a non-driver, his work primarily focuses on exploring the places he's lived and their immediate surroundings by walking, bicycling, and public transportation. His published monographs include Winter Nights, Walking (2023), In the Vicinity (2018), Animals That Saw Me: Volume One and Volume Two (2011 and 2016), Salad Days (2012), Same Difference (2010), and Golden Palms (2007) He is the recipient of a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts and in 2022 he received a Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Panar's work has been exhibited widely, including venues such as Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, and Kasseler Kunstverein in Kassel, Germany. Ed is cofounder of the project space Spaces Corners and currently lives and works between Johnstown and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.