Born in Brooklyn in 1957, Keith Goldstein is a freelance photographer and photo editor based in New York City. He earned his BFA with honors in photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1981, and furthered his education with an MFA in photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, in 1984. Since 1980, Goldstein has been exhibiting his work internationally. His imagery has been featured in notable magazines like Time, ABC News Australia, Now Public, Flak Magazine, and JPEG Magazine. Over the years, he has collaborated with various prominent book publishers, including Penguin Putnam, Simon & Schuster, and St. Martin’s Press, where he has made a mark in the creation of book covers. Goldstein's work has been placed in diverse private collections and prestigious institutions such as the Erie Art Museum in Erie, Pennsylvania, the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, and the S.K Neuman Cultural Center in Brno, Czech Republic.