About

In my films and photography, I have documented the global effects of climate change over the past 2 decades as our planet rapidly changes, with a particular focus on how culture is both impacted by and offers solutions.

Currently, my focus centers on the intersection of food, culture, and craft, inspired by a quote from one of my recent stories: “Whole life is encompassed by three intrinsic needs: meaningful work in a place you love, with people you love.” My goal is to create work that elevates and embodies these principles, nurturing a society that is healthier, more united, and deeply connected.

My work is part of the permanent collections of The 9/11 Memorial Museum and Stony Brook University, and my exhibits have included The Invisible Season at Lincoln Center, and have been awarded top honors at World Press Photo Foundation. Most recently, I co-curated the Maks Levin exhibit at the United Nations, sponsored by The Committee to Protect Journalists. I began my photographic career in Kosovo in 1999, and my projects continue to appear in publications worldwide.

I teach Visual Narratives at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University as an adjunct professor.

My photographic work appears in The New York Times, TIME, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Orion Magazine, Newsweek, Le Monde II and others throughout the world.​

My grants and fellowships include, POV, The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and  is an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia Universities’ Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. I hold an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston.

Portrait: ©Marion Brun

Presentations and Lectures

2023-The Ukrainian Institute of America—first look Bone & Thread presentation

2023-Open studio visit, Surf Point Maine—The making of Bone & Thread

2022-Guest Lecturer, Clara Barton High School for Health Professions

2022-Guest Lecturer, Clara Barton High School for Health Professions.

2021-Guest Lecturer, Stony Brook University, Department of Art,  “In Process Critique”

2021-Speaker, IPPO x 365 x 10 :10, 10 Years From the Triple Disaster-a response to the “Global PechaKucha Night- Inspire Japan” of 2011.

2021-Presenter,  Compassion film festival

2020-Speaker, ArchiPicnic-, Fukushima at 10: What have we learned? 

2020-Presenter, College of the Holy Cross, The Seeds of an Uncertain Land & agroecology in Puerto Rico

2019-Presenter, Saint John the Divine Remembering Fukushima: Speaker & artist, An evening with Eiko Otake, Jake Price, and Ralph Samuelson

2018-Presenter, Saint John the Divine: Art and Conversation at the Cathedral Photography and poetry’s role in coping with loss in Fukushima.

2018-Guest Lecturer, Turin Italy-Masterclass in Visual Storytelling in collaboration with International Center of Photography and curated by Alison Morley

2018 Speaker, Magnum Foundation/Open Society Foundation/Aperture Gallery- Photography, Expanded: The Story of Data: Visualization, Mapping, and Photography Moderated by Stephen Mayes

2017, Speaker The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine Remembering Fukushima: Art and Conversations with Eiko

2016-Guest Lecturer, Bard College A symposium on art, politics, culture and the Environment in Asia, “The Work of Photography Across Shifting Topographies”

2016-Speaker, Teachers College, Columbia University The Invisible Season: An Exclusive First Screening and post film discussion

2014-Speaker, New York Film Festival: The Invisible Season premiere & post film discussion.

2014-Speaker, Consortium for Japan Relief March 2014 Symposium “Fukushima Three Years Later: “Staying Behind, Moving Forward”

2017-Guest Lecturer, The College of the Environment at Wesleyan University- A 3 day series of presentations to film and art students culminating with the main exhaustive presentation: Stories from the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston and the Legacy of Fukushima

2018-Guest Lecturer, NYU Cinema Studies/Tisch School of the Arts: How immersive story telling & long projects.

2015- Guest Lecturer, Knight Foundation workshop/FilmGate Miami Creative ways to cope with future climate events at home.  

2015-Speaker, Filmgate Miami-Moderated by National Geographic’s James Wellford: how rising sea levels threaten nuclear facilities in coastal states.

2015-Speaker, Columbia University / Barnard College “Long Term Health Issues in Fukushima, A Case Study”

2016-Speaker, MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative-Presentation with professor Shun Kanda on MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative 

2013-Speaker, IPPO x 365 x 2 – Reflections on the Japanese Front

2014-Presenter StoryCode-Presenting  UknownSpring

2014-Speaker, Köprüaltı-Moderated by James Wellford a panel on the Gezi Park demonstrations.

2013-Presenter, Filmgate: Presenting the prototype for The Invisible Season.

2012-Speaker, Columbia University / Barnard College in New York/ Japanese Medical Society of America: “The Great East Japan Earthquake: Creative Responses & Social Imagination.”

2013-Presenter, World Press Photo Foundation, Amsterdam-Presentation of the award-winning Unknown Spring 

2012-Presenter, Bursa FotoFest, Turkey

2012-Presenter, Spazio Labo, Bologna Italy-Presentation of Unknown Spring

2011-Pechakucha: New York #11: Dimensions of the New City

Interviews & Press

2011-Present: An exhaustive and visualized list of exhibits, press & published works for The Invisible Season

Filmmaker Magazine interview: “Unknown Spring is both a chronicle of and testament to the Japanese people’s resilience and humanity in the face of unspeakable odds.”

Filmmaker: “The Biggest Challenge was Working Amidst the Radiation”: Jake Price on The Invisible Season

Wildsound: Interview with Filmmaker Jake Price (The Seeds Of An Uncertain Land)

2014-The Invisible Season featured on I-Docs: POV Delivers a Revolutionary Approach to Storytelling with Six New Interactive Documentary Shorts

2018 The case for video content – On Think Tanks

POV Interactive Shorts: Q&A With the Creator of ‘Fukushima: The Invisible Season’

Chronogram Interview:

Kino-eye interview: 

Oceanic Global: An Interview on the convergence of art, photojournalism, cinema and emerging technologies

Reading the Pictures: Jake Price in Japan: The Road Back,

PDN: Tsunami’s Toxic Legacy

Indiewire: What’s the Future of Storytelling? ‘Unknown Spring’ Provides Some Answers

PRI, The World:

Columbia University: Year of Water

Orion Magazine & Verve Photo: Interview with Jake Price

BBC: Pictures from Japan

TIME Magazine: Reflections on Hurricane Katrina 10 Years After 

Exhibits

2023-Japan’s Anime Sweeping the World, short film, The Nippon Club

2022-The Invisible Season joins Stony Brook University permanent library collection

2016 The Invisible Season, Filmgate, Miami, Florida, Immersive media exhibit

2016- Eyes on Main Street, Second Edition, Wilson, North Carolina, group photography exhibit

2015 The Invisible Season, New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, New York Immersive media exhibit

2015 Köprüaltı/Under the Bridge, Photoville, Brooklyn New York – 2 person photography exhibit with Emine Gozde Sevim, Curated by James Wellford

2014-Present Before the fall: George Bush on Ellis Island, The 9/11 Memorial Museum, permanent photography exhibition

2013-Lines Aligned Photographic Stories from 13 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, Bali, Indonesia curated by Barbara Stauss, group immersive media exhibit

2013-Laatikkomo Project, a nomadic photo exhibit based out of Jyväskylä, Finland, group photography exhibit

2012 -和 [Wa]-Tokyo/New York, group photography exhibit
2012 The Recovery of Memory, Bursa International Photo Festival, Bursa, Turkey-Solo Photography Exhibit

2011-Japan Now, Fovea Gallery Tokyo, Beacon, NY, group photography exhibit

2011-企画展「IMAGES of TOHOKU」 Zen Photo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, group photography exhibit

2006-2012 Seen UnSeen Presents, Bubble Lounge, New York, group photography projections

2007-Iraq Refugee Stories: In their own words online exhibit, online exhibit, group photographic exhibit

2002-Surviving Kosovo, The Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, solo photography exhibit 

2002-Surviving Kosovo, Alliance Françias, New York, solo photography exhibit 

2002-Access to Essential Medicines, Doctors Without Borders Traveling exhibit

2001 Here is New York, A Democracy of Photographs, 114 Prince Street, New York, group photography exhibit

2000-Annual Group Show, Leica Gallery, New York, group photography exhibit

Grants, Fellowships, Awards, Residencies & Curation

2023-Co curator Maks Levin exhibit at the United Nations sponsored by The Committee to Protect Journalists

2023-Residency: Surf Point Foundation, Pennacook, Wabanaki Confederacy, and Abenaki/Abenaquis tribal nations’ original homelands, Maine

2022-Residency: La Lucarne – résidence d’artistes à Langeac, Langeac, France

2022-Cranford Film Festival, The Seeds of an Uncertain Land, Best of Fest

2021-Portland Film Festival- The Invisible Season, Official Selection

2021-Toronto Documentary Feature & Short Film Festival, The Seeds of an Uncertain Land, First Place—Best Score

2021-Toronto Documentary Feature & Short Film Festival, The Seeds of an Uncertain Land,  First Place Best Sound

2021-International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival, The Seeds of an Uncertain Land Honorable mention 

2020- Economic Hardship Reporting Project Grant recipient for The New York Farmers Responding to Food Insecurity

2020-Economninc Hardship Reporting Project: Emergency grant

2020-American Documentary: AMDOC Emergency grant for filmmakers

2018-Ochberg Fellowship: Dart Center for Trauma and Journalism

2017-Magnum Foundation: Photography Expanded official participant 

2014-POV Grant recipient for The Invisible Season

2014-Official Selection, New York Film Festival, The Invisible Season

2014- Economic Hardship Reporting Project Grant recipient for America’s Fading Main Streets

2014 – Webby Award Nomination for The Invisible Season

2013-POV-The Invisible Season: Official selection of POV hackathon

2013-World Press Photo Foundation Award for Unknown Spring

Teaching

2017-present Adjunct Professor: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,

2016-2019-Professor, International Center of Photography

Published Photography

2023

National Geographic: Orange skies are the future. Prepare yourself.

Civil Eats: How DC Central Kitchen Tackles Hunger, From Food Trucks to Training Programs

2022

El Correo: Jeff Koons portraits for the 25th anniversary of The Guggenheim, Bilbao

Civil Eats: The Next Generation of DC Central Kitchen Chefs

Civil Eats: How Nourish New York Is Still Feeding NYC

2021

The Gothamist: Smokey Skies From West Coast Wildfires Offer A “New And Surprising” Climate Crisis Hazard

USC/Shoah Foundation: Current Conflict Collections: How and Why USC Shoah Foundation is Collecting Testimony from Ongoing Conflicts

Civil Eats-An African Rice Harvest on the Hudson

Blind Magazine: Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs

El Correo: Las heridas sin cicatrizar de testigos y familiares de la caída de las Torres Gemelas

2020

USC/Shoah Foundation: Voices of Rohingya – Today We Remember

Civil Eats/ Economic Hardship Reporting Project  The New York Farmers Responding to Food Insecurity

Civil Eats: The New York City Volunteers Risking Their Lives to Feed People

Civil Eats: Meet the People Who Bring Food and Comfort to NYC’s Homebound, Food-Insecure Seniors

Civil Eats: Farmers in Puerto Rico are Growing a Culture of Social Justice and Climate Resilience

ABC News:

NBC News/The Today Show: Food for Thought: Chef Daniel Boloud on Feeding NYC’s Neediest

El Correo: Recorrido en vídeo por Nueva York, el nuevo epicentro de la pandemia

El Correo: Kirmen Uribe «No me interesan la palabrería ni los fuegos de artificio literarios»

Travel and Leasure: Chef Daniel Boulud Shares Dispatches From His Citymeals on Wheels Prep Kitchen

Stony Brook: RECKONING: Faculty Exhibition 2020

Westwood Gallery: Transformation and Resilience

2019

The New Republic: A New Commitment to Covering the Climate Story

Civil Eats: Regenerating New York Harbor, One Billion Oysters at a Time

Eiko Otake: A Body in Fukushima

2018

CNN: ‘Everybody’s talking about them, but who’s talking with them?’: Documenting Rohingyas’ stories

2017

New York Times- We Lived Through a Flood. Now We Have a Very Long To-Do List. 

The Daily Beast: How the Earth Is Reclaiming Fukushima, the Ninth Ward, and Staten Island

Wesleyan University: Where on earth are we going?

PRI/BBC The World: Immigrants face impossible choices in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

2016

The University of Southern Florida/Mind Open Media: Beneath the Horizon

2015

The Daily Beast: How the Earth Is Reclaiming Fukushima, the Ninth Ward, and Staten Island

Asia Pacific Journal: Images of Suffering, Resilience and Compassion in Post 3/11 Japan

MIT: A Stage for All – Rin Rin Popolo

ICAP at Columbia University/PEPFAR: A Time for Action: HIV Prevention Research in the United States

ICAP at Columbia University /PEPFAR: Integrating TB and H I V Services to Mitigate the Impact of Lesotho’s Dua l Epidemic

ICAP at Columbia University /PEPFAR: Scaling Up Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Services in Tanzania’s Kagera Region

ICAP at Columbia University /PEPFAR: Experiences Transitioning to New Adult First-Line Antiretroviral Regimens

ICAP at Columbia University /PEPFAR: Rapid Scale–Up and Decentralization of HIV Care and Treatment Services

ICAP at Columbia University /PEPFAR: Accelerating Patient Enrollment in HIV Care and Treatment Services in Lesotho

ICAP at Columbia University /PEPFAR: Paying it Forward: Kenyan Nurses Train Success Story Peers to Deliver Life-Saving HIV Treatment

2014

The New Yorker-Fukushima, Three Years Later

The Daily Beast/ Economic Hardship Reporting Project: America’s Fading Main Streets

Center for Media & Social Impact School of Communication, American University:  An Exploration of Immersive Storytelling

2013

BBC News: Jake Price returns to Japan

BBC news: A photographer’s view of the Turkish protests

Photo District News: Unknown Spring Wins World Press Photo Multimedia Contest

2012

The New Yorker: Postcards from Tohoku: Japan, One Year Later

The Guardian: CPM-703: After Fukushima

BBC News:  Yuriage one year after the Tsunami

2011

TIME Magazine: The 3/11 Project: Photographs from Japan, Helping Japan

Rolling Stone: How the World Failed Haiti

BBC News: Dispatch From Tohoku

BBC News: Japan Six Months After the Tsunami

BBC News: Surviving the Aftermath: Japan One Month After the Tsunami

Reading the Pictures: Jake Price in Japan: Five Months On

BBC News/Verve Photo: Migrants Risk Their Lives on “The Beast” in Mexico’s Perilous Lecheria Crossroads

Chronogram: Aftermath

Corrier/ Kodansha: 3/11 Tsunami Photo Project

2010

Orion Magazine: Burial & Flight

Doctors Without Borders: Cholera in Haiti: “The outbreak is still in the beginning”

BBC News: Audio slideshow: Life in a camp in Haiti

The New York Times: Flooding Raises New Cholera Fears in Haiti

Newsweek: Cholera in Haiti

The New York Times: Strengthening Hurricane Swipes Haiti – The New York Times

The New York Times: Haitians Cry in Letters: ‘Please – Do Something!’

The New York Times Why Haiti Still Despairs After $13 Billion in Foreign Aid

New York Times: Facing New Crisis, Haitians Prove Skeptical

Food and Wine: Jose Andres in Haiti

PRI/BBC The World: Fans Remember Popular Haitian Musician Lénord Fortuné

2009

Gastronomnica: Cork: Portugal’s Vital Resource

2008

BBC News: In pictures: Kosovo revisited

The Wall Street Journal: Humanitarian Crisis In Jordan

The Village Voice: Silent Vigil Marks 4,000 Soldiers Killed in Iraq – The Village Voice

El Correo: De Wall Street a Main Street
El Correo: La Esquina de los sueños rotos

2007

Village Voice: The Neurotic Boys of Summer

Village Voice: Vodou Child

2006

NPR/Morning Edition: Mexico’s Drug Wars Leave Rising Death Toll

NPR/Morning Edition: Mexican Town Hosts Annual Congress of Witches

Newsweek: Visions of Hell

Village Voice: Friends on a Field Trip to Hell (House)

Le Monde2: Cachemire, dans les villes détruites

The Village Voice: The Space Race

The Village Voice: Blood Work

2005

International Herald Tribune: Tears in Poland as Mourners Remember one of Their Own

The New York Times: Millions Around the Globe Mourn Pope John Paul

The New York Times: Italians Feel They Need the Next Papacy for Themselves

The New York Times: cardinals from 52 countries prepare to enter a conclave on Monday to select the next pope

The New York Times: Cardinals vote inconclusively on new pope

The New York Times: Suspected Terrorists Arrested in Rome

The New York Times: Joy and Elation as the New Pope is Announced

The New York Times: Pope Benedict XVI Greets the Crowd in St. Peters

The New York Times: Benedict XVI First Mass as Pope

The New York Times: South and Central Americans Survive on the Outskirts of Rome

The New York Times: Modernity Arrives in Rome

International Herald Tribune: Pilgrims Kneel Before the Grave of Pope John Paul II

NBC News: House OKs flag desecration amendment

Doctors Without Borders: The Year in Pictures

African Services Committee: Annual Report

​2004 

​The New York Times: A Haitian Village Gets a Barrage of Care

The New York Times: Bringing Relief to Haiti’s Poor, on the Backs of Mules

BBC News: Uganda’s Night Commuters

2004: The Village Voice: Out to Launch

Village Voice: New York Cops Vow to Crush Violent Protest at World Economic Forum

2004​

AM New York/The Villager: Another R.N.C. photographer arrest: Moises Saman

The Village Voice: Rage, Peace, and Panty Lines

The Village Voice: Senior Moment

Doctors Without borders: Annual Report

2003

The New York Times Magazine: What They Were Thinking

The New York Times: Where AIDS Stalks, Everyone Lives in Fear

BBC News: In pictures: Aids in Homa Bay

2002

LIFE Magazine: The Year in Pictures

The Village Voice: Law of the Fist

 L’Espresso: “Una rassegna completa delle rivolte del G8”

Here is New York

The Village Voice: Against The Wall

Doctors Without Borders: Annual Report: Sierra Leone

2001

TIME Magazine: How Can We Miss You If You Never Go Away?

LIFE Magazine: The Year in Pictures

The Village Voice: First Tear Gas, Now Bullets

The Village Voice: The Fire This Time: The Killing of Carlo Giuliani

​2000

The New York Times: Making up Their Minds—or Not.

The New York Times: A Photographer’s Journal

The New York Times: A Photographer’s Journal

The New York Times: A Photographer’s Journal

Catholic Medical Mission Board: Haiti: The Miracle of Survival

​1996-1999​

Catholic Medical Mission Board: The War in Kosovo

Numerous assignments for The New York Blade, The Westsider, Chelsea Clinton News, The Villager