Bio
Jake Price is a producer, director, immersive doc creator and educator. Jake's films and immersive media convey intimate and poignant stories of the human spirit in demanding times with a focus on how climate change threatens our cultural and ecological systems that have been developed over a millennia.
His films have screened across the globe including, The New York Film Festival and have been awarded top honors at World Press Photo Foundation.
His 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.
His grants and fellowships include, POV, The Economnic Hardship Reporting Project and is an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia Universities’ Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Jake holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston and teaches Visual Narratives at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University as an adjunct professor.
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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:
Oceanic Global: An Interview on the convergence of art, photojournalism, cinema and emerging technologies
Reading the Pictures: Jake Price in Japan: The Road Back,
Indiewire: What’s the Future of Storytelling? ‘Unknown Spring’ Provides Some Answers
Columbia University: Year of Water
Orion Magazine & Verve Photo: Interview with Jake Price
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, Westside Spirit, Our Town