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Jake Price

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Jake Price’s Biography

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Jake Price is a New York City-based photographer and filmmaker. After working as a photojournalist and producer at the BBC and New York Times, he shifted his work to filmmaking and immersive media production. Price's many projects been awarded by the World Press Photo and have also been displayed internationally.

Jake Price’s Journalist Portfolio

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Fukushima, Three Years Later

Fukushima, Three Years Later

The photographer Jake Price left New York for Japan forty-eight hours after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami…

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An African Rice Harvest on the Hudson

An African Rice Harvest on the Hudson

Farmer Nfamara Badjie's rice-growing traditions, brought from Gambia to upstate New York, brings community an…

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We Lived Through a Flood. Now We Have a Very Long To-Do List. (Published 2017)

We Lived Through a Flood. Now We Have a Very Long To-Do List. (Published 2017)

Dispatch BELLAIRE, Tex. - All I could do was reach for the towels. With the deluge of Hurricane Harvey approa…

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Beneath the Horizon

Beneath the Horizon

Directed by Jake Price Beneath the Horizon creates an exhaustive account of the consequences of two major oil…

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Jake Price, Author at Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Jake Price, Author at Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Jake Price is an American photojournalist and filmmaker based in New York. His work appears in Newsweek, BBC …

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Haitians Cry in Letters: 'Please - Do Something!' (Published 2010)

Haitians Cry in Letters: 'Please - Do Something!' (Published 2010)

CORAIL-CESSELESSE, Haiti - It was after midnight in a remote annex of this isolated tent camp on a windswept …

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Articles

As Louisiana's Wetlands Erode, A Fishing Culture Fights to Survive

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By Jake Price
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Unlock the Full Story with a Civil Eats Membership Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats member. Enjoy unlimited access to our groundbreaking reporting, engage with experts, and connect with a community of changemakers. “I grew up fishing these waters down here just like everyone down in Shell Beach,” says Brad Robin, whose family has lived here for generations. “We never had a bike ride in the streets.
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Crusading New York Community Garden Group Turns 30

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By Jake Price
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Glover Street Community Garden (the Bronx) One prime example is the Glover Street Community Garden in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx. Founded in 1982 by local residents, the 1,209‑square‑foot space was redesigned by the NYRP in partnership with the community in November 2016. Contractors did the heavy construction in summer of 2018, and volunteers subsequently planted the perimeter. The garden celebrated its reopening on June 8, 2019.
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Food + Policy | Civil Eats

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By Jake Price, Tilde Herrera, Lisa Elaine Held Verified, Kirsten Lie-Nielsen
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A photo essay of gardens from Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project, which for three decades has been converting neglected lots into resilient neighborhood green spaces.
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Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

Running out of history class to cover history when the LA Riots broke out.

Awards

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World Press Photo-Honorable Mention

2013 - Digital Storytelling

UnknownSpring is an immersive online anthology that chronicles a community's efforts to overcome the tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March 2011 through interactive maps, survivor interviews, video, and audio slideshows, UnknownSpring is a project that provides a portrait of Yuriage, a town that was obliterated by the tsunami's backwaters, and its residents as they try to move past their traumas and continue on with life. Credits: Director and photographer: Jake Price Art director and programmer: Visakh Menon

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Toronto Documentary Feature & Short Film Festival

2021 - The Seeds of an Uncertain Land, First Place—best score

The Seeds of an Uncertain Land, First Place—best score

First Place—best score

2021 - The Seeds of an Uncertain Land—Best sound

Best sound

52nd New York Film Festival

2015 - Official Selection, New York Film Festival, The Invisible Season

Official Selection, New York Film Festival, The Invisible Season

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Webby Awards

2014 - Webby Award Nomination for the Invisible Season

After becoming an official selection at POV's second hackathon The Invisible Season became a financially supported project. It was later nominated as official selection at the Webbys in the immersive media category.

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