Ezra & Noah Benus

Ezra & Noah Benus

Two white Ashkenazi Jewish disabled brothers with dark brown hair sitting on a porch off of a red brick home on a summer night, dark sky in the background. Ezra is wearing a blue face mask, short sleeve white shirt with red, green, blue, yellow geometric shapes with blue pants, legs crossed and looking at Noah. Noah is wearing a red face mask, round metal glasses, a green short sleeve polo shirt, white pants with hands crossed in lap and legs spread, head looking straight towards the camera. Photo credit Shai Katz

Ezra and Noah Benus are artists who founded Brothers Sick, a sibling artistic collaboration on disability justice, illness, and care. Ezra is an artist, educator, and curator, who addresses a range of themes in his art such as time, care, pain, and illness/health by tapping into his background and experience in Jewish studies, art history, and the embodiment of disability. He engages the self as a site where social, political, and spiritual forces collide through tapping into bodily knowledge and social constructions around values of normativity. Noah is a New York City-based photographer interested in exploring activism through social, educational, and political works. As a disabled artist, he ventures to reveal often overlooked moments through modes of portraiture, photojournalism, and studio works. His photographic works use alternative processes, and analog and digital formats to educate and advocate for access.