Jake Price

Jake Price is a filmmaker, photographer, and producer of immersive documentaries. A focus of his work is the intersection of climate change with cultural and ecological systems, emphasizing long-term storytelling that captures the deep connections between land, culture, science, and community. An Ochberg Fellow at Columbia Universities’ Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, coping with and understanding trauma are also significant themes that run throughout his work.

He began his photographic career in Kosovo 1999. He has worked on assignments for, and his work appears in, publications worldwide, including The New York Times, National Geographic, TIME, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal,  Rolling Stone, Orion Magazine, Newsweek, Le Monde II, Japan Contemporaries, and others.

Over the past two decades, he has navigated the evolving media landscape, marked by the decline of print media and the rise of digital platforms. By embracing new technologies and storytelling formats, he has remained at the forefront of evolving journalism. His present work is characterized by the blending of traditional photojournalism and innovative digital storytelling, integrating photographs, audio recordings, video, and written narratives that result in multi-layered experiences.

His immersive documentary projects include Unknown Spring, which documented the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan and received top honors from the World Press Photo Foundation. This was followed by The Invisible Season, a POV funded web documentary that focused on the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, which was nominated for a Webby Award and premiered at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center.

His photography and films are held in the private collections of The 9/11 Memorial Museum and Stony Brook University and his solo exhibits include an immersive exhibit of The Invisible Season at Lincoln Center, New York, Surviving Kosovo at The Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, amongst many others globally. He has curated numerous exhibits, most recently as co-curator for the Maks Levin exhibit at the United Nations sponsored by The Committee to Protect Journalists.

He holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston.