Justin Maxon
San Francisco, CA, United States
Justin Maxon (1983) was born in a small town in the woods of northern California where he grew up part-time on the Hoopa Indian Reservation. He is committed to working on projects that reveal different variables of truth in humanities conflicted existence, and incorporate various artistic forms and expressions.
He has received numerous awards for his photography and video projects. He has won two 1st place awards from World Press Photo. He won the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year at the 2008 Lucie Awards; the same year he was named one of PDN’s 30 Photographers to Watch. He was selected to participate in World Press Photo’s 2010 Joop Swart Masterclass. He received the 2011 Cliff Edom “New America Award” from NPPA. He was also selected as one of Magenta’s 2012 Flash Forward Emerging Photographers.
His nine-year project in Chester PA, has received grants from the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, Visura, the Reminders Stronghold, the Alexia Foundation for World Peace, and the Aaron Siskind Foundation. He was selected by Blue Earth Alliance for their fiscal sponsorship.
He has worked on feature and cover stories for publications such as TIME, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, MSNBC, Mother Jones Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fast Company, Fader Magazine, The New York Times, and NPR.
His work has been exhibited widely: which includes the Chinese Musum of Art in New York, Musuem de Arte Acarigua-Araure in Venezeula, OneArts Space in New York, Second Floor Gallery in London, 25CPW Gallery in New York, the Bermuda National Gallery, the Rayko Gallery in San Francisco, Photoville Festival in New York, the Project Room in Chicago, the Exposure Gallery in San Francisco, the Singapore International Photography Festival, the LOOK3 Festival in Charlottesville, the Chobi Mela Festival in Bangladesh, the Lodz Fotofestiwal in Poland, the New York Photo Festival in Dumbo, and the Fotopub Festival in Slovenia.
2017 - World Press Photo, 2017 - Visura , 2017 - Photographic Museum of Humanity Grant, 2014 - Asian Pride Project , 2014 - Reminders Stronghold, 2014 - Blue Earth Alliance, 2013 - American Photography 28, 2013 - Aaron Siskind Fondation, 2013 - Voices Off Arles, 2012 - Magenta’s Flash Forward , 2012 - Alexia Foundation For World Peace , 2012 - Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund , 2011 - Pictures of the Year (POYi) , 2011 - Lens Exposure Awards, 2011 - Visura , 2011 - NPPA, Cliff Edom’s “New America Award.” , 2011 - Rayko Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2010 - World Press Photo, 2009 - NPPA, Best of Photojournalism, 2009 - PDN (Photo District News), 2008 - Pictures of the Year International (POYi) , 2008 - UNICEF, Images of the Year, 2008 - IPA (International Photo Awards), 2008 - World Press Photo, 2008 - Photo District News (PDN), 2008 - Hearst Journalism Awards, 2008 - Sportsshooter.com, 2008 - SFBAPPA (SF Bay Area Press Photographers), 2008 - Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar, 2007 - Eddie Adams Workshop
- Audio capture
- Audio editing
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Events
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Video capture