Emily Pederson
Blink
New York, NY, United States
Bilingual photographer and filmmaker based in New York City. My work focuses on human rights, social movements, and the aftermath of violence. While living in Mexico for three years, I covered the impact of the Drug War on Mexican society and struggles for justice. My work has been supported by Field of Vision and published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Huck Magazine, among others, and I currently work at Blink as a Photo Editor.
2017 - Grand Prize for Emerging Filmmaker, 2017 - Latin American Fotografia 6, 2017 - Fulbright Specialist, 2016 - Photolucida Critical Mass Finalist
- Conflict
- Editorial
- Environment
- Events
- Interview
- Landscape
- Video capture
- Video editing
Gaby
Emily Pederson
A relative holds Gaby, the baby daughter of missing student José Ángel Campos Cantor. A portrait of him hangs on the wall behind her. Guerrero, Mexico. March 18, 2015.
From the series UNTIL WE FIND YOU, on 43 students who were kidnapped and disappeared by police in Mexico. http://www.emilykpederson.com/until-we-find-you
Romana
Emily Pederson
Romana, mother of missing student Jose Ángel Campos Cantor. From the series UNTIL WE FIND YOU, on 43 students who were kidnapped and disappeared by police in Mexico. http://www.emilykpederson.com/until-we-find-you
Tunnel
Emily Pederson
Riot police intercept relatives and classmates of the 43 missing students, who were calling for a boycott of the state elections, en route to a radical protest. Tixtla, Guerrero. June 3, 2015. From the series UNTIL WE FIND YOU, on 43 students who were kidnapped and disappeared by police in Mexico. http://www.emilykpederson.com/until-we-find-you
