Justin Cook is a journalist, photographer and artist based in Durham, North Carolina. His long-term photographic essays and narrative journalism projects tell stories about ordinary people who are being impacted by climate change and connect climate change to things that they are passionate about: their homes, sacred places and history. He believes storytelling that not only shines light on these issues, but also investigates solutions is crucial in order for humans to live in a better relationship with the planet.

Justin is a 2006 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is an FAA licensed drone pilot. He is a multiple Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee, and his work has been funded by The Solutions Journalism Network Climate Solutions Fellowship, The North Carolina Arts Council, The Puffin Foundation; and honored by The Magenta Foundation, Photolucida, POYi, The Society of Environmental Journalists, The Society of Professional Journalists, and American Photography. But a 14-year-old high school student who watched him speak about his work said “It was boring, to be honest.”

When he is not making photographs, you can find him hunting for fossilized shark teeth in eastern North Carolina.

CONTACT:

Justin Cook
P.O. Box 2541
Durham, N.C. 27715
+1 (919) 695-3551
studio@justincookphoto.com

SELECT EDITORIAL CLIENTS: AARP, Bloomberg Businessweek, Education Week, ESPN, The Guardian, The Marshall Project, MSNBC, The National Audubon Society, National Geographic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Our State Magazine, Rotarian Magazine, The Simons Foundation, The Trace, VICE, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and others.

SELECT COMMERCIAL CLIENTS: Bronto Software, ChannelAdvisor, Duke University, @mynameisjessamyn (Jessamyn Stanley), Lee Jeans, Old Navy, SquareSpace, Target.

SELECT PRESS: The Pulitzer Center Behind the Story, The Weather Channel, NC Arts Council, National Humanities Center Podcast, The Bitter Southerner, Magenta Foundation, PDN, UNC-TV, WUNC, The Kenan Institute.
 

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: The North Carolina Collection - Wilson Library at UNC Chapel Hill; The North Carolina Collection - Durham County Library; Dare County Library - Kill Devil Hills; Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Duke University; The Indie Photobook Library - Washington, D.C.; The Ackland Art Museum - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sloane Art Library - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; The University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections - Louisville, Kentucky; The Aperture Foundation Library - New York; The Estate of Rachel Carson - Wayne, Pennsylvania; and The Library of Congress, - Washington, D.C.

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