Born in the Appalachian foothills of Tennessee, Syrie Moskowitz spent most of her childhood in the deep South. She and her mother, an artist and novelist, spent extensive time traveling the country selling antiques from the back of a van. At the age of 12, Moskowitz began seriously photographing, becoming the fourth-generation photographer in her family. She also trained in classical and modern ballet, theatre, Argentine tango, and piano.
At seventeen, she traveled to Eastern Europe, making a documentary in Romania, which began her career in film making. Since then, both film and photographic projects have led her around the globe, to create stories and record subjects in Europe, Central America, and the Middle East.
She has collaborated and worked with many significant artists and photographers, including Salman Rushdie, David Salle, Ellen Von Unwerth, Jenny Morgan, Pamela Hanson, Emma Summerton, Mark Seliger, Amy Arbus, George Holz, Alexander Klingspor and others. She has been featured on the cover of Juxtapoz Magazine as well as editorials and advertising in Vanity Fair, Italian Vogue, Vogue, Modern Painters, Playboy, VS Magazine and countless other publications and art books.
