EDUCATION
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2006 - B.A., Journalism and Mass Communication, Photojournalism.
EXPERIENCE
Justin Cook Documentary Photography, INC - Durham, N.C., Founder, 01/2011-Present
The INDY Week - Durham, N.C., Staff Photographer, 07/2013-04/2015
The Roanoke Times - Christiansburg, Virginia, Staff Photographer, 10/07-12/2010
The Flint Journal - Flint, Michigan, Photography Intern, 5/07-09/07
The Tampa Bay Times - Tampa, Florida, Photography Intern/Staff Photographer, 9/06-4/07
The Dallas Morning News - Dallas, Texas., Photography Intern, 6/06-8/06
SELECT CLIENTS:
AARP, The Bitter Southerner, Børsen (Denmark), Bloomberg Businessweek, Bronto Software, Business North Carolina, ChannelAdvisor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN, Communities in Schools of North Carolina, Criminal (podcast), Drew University, Duke University, Durham's Partnership for Children, Earthjustice, East Coast Greenway Alliance, Eat Smart Move More Weigh Less NC, Education Week, ESPN, The Ford Foundation, Getty/Verbatim, GX Magazine (The National Guard), The Guardian, The INDY Week (Durham, N.C.), The KIPP Foundation, The Marshall Project, MSNBC.com, The National Audubon Society, National Geographic, N.C. State Alumni Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, National Public Radio, Our State Magazine (N.C.), Oxford American, RESPONSE Magazine (Seattle Pacific University), Rotarian Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, She Shreds Magazine, Slate, The Simons Foundation, STAT News, Strayer University, The Sun (UK), The Tampa Bay Times, The Trace, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC Health Care, VICE, The Wall Street Journal, Walter Magazine, The Washington Post, WUNC, The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and others.
SELECT AWARDS AND GRANTS
2022 Solutions Journalism Network Climate Solutions Inititative
2022 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant
2022 Leica Oskar Barnack Award nominee
2022 Society of Environmental Journalists Honorable Mention, Tide and Time
2022 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Connected Coastlines Initiative Grant, Origins
2021 Society of Environmental Journalists First Honorable Mention
2020 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Connected Coastlines Initiative Grant, for my sea level rise work Tide and Time
2020 North Carolina Arts Council Support Grant, for my sea level rise work Tide and Time
2020 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant
2018 American Photography 34
2016 John Gutmann Photography Fellowship nominee
2015 Magenta Flash Forward
2014 North Carolina Press Photographers Association POY, First Place, Portrait
2014-2015 Durham Arts Council Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant
2014 Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist
2014 Southern Documentary Fund Fiscal Sponsorship - Made in Durham
2014 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant
2014 Flash Powder Projects Selection
2014 The New York Times Portfolio Review selection
2013 North Carolina Press Photographers Association POY, Honorable Mention, Feature
2013 North Carolina Press Association, First Place Multiple Photo Page
2012 North Carolina Press Photographers Association POY, First Place, Multimedia
2010 Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award Best Breaking News Photo
2007 Eddie Adams Workshop XX, Jeffersonville, NY, Brown Team
ARTIST TALKS/COACHING
2022 Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting annual conference - Climate Visuals. Washington, D.C.
2020 Duke University Bass Connections Art in The Anthropocene Community Collaborator.
2019 Beyond Despair, The National Humanities Center; panel discussion about my sea level rise work Tide and Time.
2018 This Land is Your Land Artist Talk, The Mothership, Durham, N.C.
2016 Artist Talk with Chris Vitiello, The Carrack Modern Art, Durham, N.C.
2016 36 Hours at Duke - Inequality Stories, Joe's Diner, Durham, N.C.
2016 Documenting Durham Panel - CDS, Durham, N.C.
2016 UNC Durham Voice, Chapel Hill, N.C.
2015-2016 UNC Copyright and Art Law classes, Chapel Hill, N.C.
2015 Duke University Divinity School, Durham, N.C.
2015 Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy, Durham, N.C.
2015-2016 The Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham annual fundraiser, Durham, N.C.
2015 The Image Deconstructed Workshop, Chapel Hill, N.C.
2015 UNC Copyright Forum at Carroll Hall, UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C.
2015 HANDS UP, panelist, Common Ground Theatre, Durham, N.C.
2014 Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy, Durham, N.C.
2014 Bring Your Own Photo and Video, Durham, N.C.
2014 The Image Deconstructed Workshop, Chapel Hill, N.C.
2014 The Southern Shortcourse, Charlotte, N.C.
2013 The Image Deconstructed Workshop, Chapel Hill, N.C.
2012 UNC Photonight, Chapel Hill, N.C.
2011-2012 UNC NPPA Portfolio reviews, Chapel Hill, N.C.
2009-2011 Carolina Photojournalism Workshops, North Carolina.CV
2010 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
2005 UNC Photonight, Chapel Hill, N.C.
BOOKS
Cook, Justin. Tide and Time. Illustrated by Eric Nyquist. Durham: Tiburon Editions, 2021.
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Photoville Exhibit – Brooklyn, NY – Pulitzer Center Solastalgia (Tide and Time).
2021 Photoville FENCE Exhibit - Salvo, N.C., Outer Banks - Tide and Time FENCE exhibit at the Salvo Community Cemetery, in partnership with Photoville, North Carolina Arts Council, The Pulitzer Center, The Coastal Review, and Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
2020 Photoville FENCE Exhibit Regional Showcase - Durham, N.C. group exhibition featuring select prints from my sea level rise work Tide and Time.
2019 Beyond Despair - The National Humanities Center; Beyond Despair: An Environmental Art Exhibition; group exhibition featuring select prints from my sea level rise work Tide and Time.
2019 Durham 150 - The Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC; Portraits of Durham, group exhibit.
2017 CLICK! Triangle Photography Festival - The Scrap Exchange, Durham, NC; Where We Find Home: Recent Southern Photography, curated group exhibition by Jeremy Lange.
2017 Voyager - Mercury Studio, Durham, N.C.
2016 Photoville Container Exhibit - Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York City 2016; America, Point Blank group exhibit, curated by Fovea, examining the current state of America's gun culture and its affects on its citizens.
2015 Durham Under Development - Pleiades Gallery Durham, N.C.; February 2016, community juried group exhibition documenting change and gentrification in Durham.
2015 The Durham Storefront Project - MADE IN DURHAM: THE VIGIL - Golden Belt, Durham, N.C; October-November 2015, wheat pasting of 9x6 foot images and a public homicide vigil.
2015 CLICK! Triangle Photography Festival - MADE IN DURHAM - Through This Lens Gallery, Durham, N.C.; October-November 2015, group exhibition.
2015 CLICK! Triangle Photography Festival - MADE IN DURHAM - FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill, N.C.; October-November 2015, group exhibition.
2014 Shenandoah Valley Photo Annual - Shenandoah Valley Arts Center, Waynesboro, Va.; December 2014, juried group exhibition.
2012 The Durham Storefront Project - Commitment NC, displayed at the Self Help building, Durham, N.C.; April-May 2012. Juried group exhibition. The Durham Storefront Project organizes installation series in underutilized spaces in downtown Durham
2012 Commitment NC and Love For All - Cherish NC Families Night Dos Perros Restaurant, Durham, N.C.; March 2012, group exhibition.
2011 Moments in Time: Roanoke Times 125th Anniversary Photo Exhibit Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Va.; September 2011-January 2012, group exhibition.
2008 Picturing the World: Carolina’s Celebrated Photojournalists Ackland Art Museum Exhibition, UNC Chapel Hill; January 2008-March 2008, group exhibition.
PERMENANT COLLECTIONS
The North Carolina Collection, Durham County Library
The Durham County Library Main Collection
Archive of Documentary Arts, David M. 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
Sloane Art Library - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections - Louisville, Kentucky
The Estate of Rachel Carson - Wayne, Pennsylvania
The Library of Congress - Washington, D.C.
The Aperture Foundation Library - New York
PRESS
2022, The Weather Channel “How Snails, a Cemetery and Dead Oaks Tell the Story of Climate Change on the Outer Bank”
2022, The Pulitzer Center “2021: A Year in Photos: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting”
2021, The Pulitzer Center x The Coastal Review “Tide and Time: Sea Level Rise and Solastalgia on North Carolina’s Outer Banks” by Justin Cook
2021, Coastal Review Online “Outer Banks ties inform photojournalist’s climate reporting” by Justin Cook
2021, The Coastal Review “Cemetery Threatened by Erosion Now Features Photo Exhibit” by Jennifer Allen
2021, Garden & Gun “New Reads for Fall – Tide and Time” by CJ Lotz
2021, The North Carolina Arts Council “One North Carolina Photographer And Journalist Investigates Sea Level Rise In The Outer Banks’ by Sandra Davidson
2019, National Humanities Center Nerds in The Woods Podcast “Home Matters” interview about Tide and Time
2018, Magenta Flash Forward Flashback "Made in Durham" by Laurence Butet-Roch
2018, Criminal Podcast "The Mothers" by Phoebe Judge, Lauren Spohrer and Nadia Wilson
2017, The Wall Street Journal "2017 The Year in Photos" (March)
2017, Education Week Full Frame "Education Week's Photos of The Year 2017" by Charlie Borst
2016, PDN “Education Week DOP Charlie Borst on Finding and Hiring Photographers” by David Walker
2016, ArtsNow NC "Refuse to forget: Justin Cook Photographs the ‘Other’ Durham" by Chris Vitiello
2016, Philadelphia Groundswell - "Intention and Ethics in Art Making: an Interview With Justin Cook" by Amy Scheidegger
2016, PDN Photo of the Day - "Justice, Made in Durham" by Rebecca Robertson
2016, Education Week Full Frame "Education Week's Photos of The Year 2016" by Kristen McNicholas
2016, UNC-TV "Joslin Simms & Justin Cook | NC Now" by Carol Jackson and Mike Oniffery
2016, PDN END FRAME "Scene of the Crime: Brian Cassella on Justin Cook" By David Walker
2015, Education Week Full Frame "Education Week's Photos of The Year 2015" by Charlie Borst
2015, WNCN “Photo project shows pain and perseverance in Durham” by Justin Quesinberry
2015, Durham Voice “Photo display brings attention to gun violence victims” by Danny Nett
2015, WUNC "The Lesser-Known Durham" by Hady Mawajdeh and Frank Stasio
2015, The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University "Made in Durham" by Michaela Dwyer
2015, The Bitter Southerner “Made in Durham” by Justin Cook and Joslin Simms
2015, WNCN "Mother 'Destroyed' by Son's Murder Finds Comfort in Durham Photo Project" by Justin Quesinberry
2014, NPPA “NPPA Member Justin Cook Reaches Agreement with UNC” by Donald Winslow
2014, Dvafoto “UNC Steals Photographer’s Work...” by Scott Brauer
2014, Crusade for Art “Developing: A Case Study in Copyright and Image Misuse” by Jennifer Schwartz
2014, Feature Shoot “Powerful Photo Series Examines Post-Tobacco Era Durham, NC” by Alyssa Coppelman
2014, Oxford American “Eyes on the South: Justin Cook’s Made in Durham” by Jeff Rich
2014, Slate Magazine Behold Blog “Struggle and Hope in Durham, N.C.” by Jordan Teicher
2013, Education Week Full Frame, "Education Week's Photos of 2013" by Swikar Patel
2013, NPPA “The Image Deconstructed: Why do you do what you do?” by Devin Greaney
2012, CNN InAmerica Blog “Same-sex couples in North Carolina prepare for marriage vote” by Stephanie Siek
2012, CNN Photo Blog “Commitment project focuses on long-term gay couples” by Elizabeth I. Johnson
2011, The Image Deconstructed “Spotlight on Justin Cook” by Ross Taylor
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