Josh Haner -Photographer Focus Presentation

In Betio, South Tarawa, Toobeen Iareko, 6, played on rebar being used to build a new sea wall in front of a sea wall that failed and allowed water to crest it during the King Tide. February 2015.
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Josh Haner, a graduate from Stanford University with a B.A. in Studio Art (photography) and a B.S. in Symbolic Systems, works as a staff photographer and senior editor for photo technology at The  New York Times.

He has had his work published, focusing on environmental climate change, some film work and photo journalism published in The National Geographic, The New York Times, The Rollingstone, Newsweek, Times and many others.

His most recent work study has been focused on travelling around the world documenting the effects and progression of climate change on both the people, the land and the animals of our earth. https://www.nytimes.com/by/josh-haner

His most notable claim to fame in his photo-journalist career is his story of Jeff Bauman, who was a victim to the Boston Marathon Bombings on April 15th, 2013. He followed Jeff's recovery and personal life, which later Jeff co-wrote the movie "Strong" with Jake Gyllenhal portraying him. Haner won the Pulitzer Price for Feature Photography for his documentation of Bauman's recovery.

Haner lives in San Francisco, and has been working at The New York times since 2006. His environmental justice work is at the forefront of his career with a mix of both video and photographic documentation. His ability to capture and reveal the facts, and write beautifully articulated pieces without bias is a skill of importance that I think many can look up to and learn from.

I chose to look into Josh's work because of his environmental focus, as well as his ability to pair it with writing and level-headed involvement with really poignant situations. The way he captures the people, changes, progression of our environment is raw and human, leaving a sense of anticipatory inspiration in the viewer.
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/28/photographing-climate-change-refugees-drone-foot-josh-haner/

My favorite photo is the above photo of Toobeen playing in the water on rebar in front of an old, wrecked boat. I think that Haners dedication to documenting climate change will be what he is best known for, especially as time goes on and the relevance and need for unbiased, factual and heart wrenching, or touching, photos of what is going on. The photo of Toobeen revealed to me the impact of humans interaction and use of land, and also how neglectful we are. Children in this surge of climate awareness, seem to be acting as not only the most effective speakers of the subject, but also the most humbling. 

Goode, Erica, and Josh Haner. “How Climate Change Is Upending Life Around the World.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/multimedia/carbons-casualties.html.

Haner, Josh, and James Estrin. “Documenting Climate Change by Air, Land and Sea.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 14 May 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/lens/climate-change-josh-haner-air-land-and-sea.html.

“Josh Haner: Visual Stories.” Visura, visura.co/haner/bio#Menu.

{{global.authorName}}. “{{(Global.pageOgTitle) ? Global.pageOgTitle : Global.pageTitle}}.” The Pulitzer Prizes, 2014, www.pulitzer.org/winners/josh-haner.