Born in 1969 in Israel, Jonathan Torgovnik arrived to New York in 1992 and graduated with a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts. His photographs from various projects and assignments have been published in numerous International publications including Newsweek, Aperture, GEO, The Sunday Times Magazine, Stern, and Paris Match among others. Torgovnik's award-winning photographs have been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the US and Europe and are in the permanent collections of museums such as The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Bibliotheque National De France in Paris.

Torgovnik is the first prize recipient of the 2007 UK National Portrait Gallery’s Portrait Prize, and the Getty Images Grant for Editorial photography. He also received awards from: Picture Of The Year International, American Photography, Graphis, Communication Arts, and Photo District News. Torgovnik’s book “Bollywood Dreams” – an exploration of the motion picture industry and its culture in India, was published by Phaidon Press in 2003. Torgovnik has completed several long-term documentary projects, and is currently focusing on his long term portrait project “Intended Consequences” on Rwandan women that were raped during the 1994 genocide and have a child as a result.
He has been a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine since 2005, and is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography School in New York.