A Photojournalist Roaming the World Longs for His Montclair Home

Ed Kashi, Montclair resident and photojournalist extraordinaire, has a new book coming out, "Witness Number 8: Photojournalisms," from Nazraeli Press, a collection of images, diary entries, and letters to his wife, Julie Winokur.

And now Kashi's conversation with James Estrin this month at the National Press Photographers Association's Northern Short Course in Fairfax, Virginia has been edited and published this week in The New York Times.

The interview is a fascinating glimpse into the world of an award-winning journalist who admits to spending more than half of his life in hotel rooms alone. With two children aged 14 and 17, Kashi is quite candid on what it's like to be so often away from home.

In the "New York Times" piece, he says: "It is very much a fear of ending up alone. And mortality. There are times where I have actually broken down, even last summer, in front of my son, sobbing, saying I am so scared of being left alone. I am so afraid that you have grown up not having to care about me in this way, and you will go off, as your should, and have your life, and then I will have even less importance and meaning in your life."

In 2002, Kashi and his writer/filmmaker wife Winokur, founded Talking Eyes Media. The non-profit company has produced numerous short films and multimedia pieces that explore significant social issues. The first project resulted in a book and traveling exhibition on uninsured Americans called "Denied: The Crisis of America's Uninsured."

To read the interview, go here. To find out more about Kashi's new book, which is available for pre-order, go here.