Kriston Jae Bethel is an award-winning, independent editorial, documentary and portrait photographer based out of the Philadelphia area. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and many more publications. Kriston is experienced in creating solutions journalism stories, going beyond problems to highlight how they might be solved. A graduate of Temple University, where he studied journalism and political science, he now teaches on occasion as adjunct faculty.
2021 - Award of Excellence
People walk the 18th Street pathway that runs beneath the Roosevelt Extention and through Nicetown Park on Thursday, May 23, 2019. While the park was updated nearly 10 years ago, lack of maintenance have left it in poor condition. Community members have spent that time trying to get fuding for a new park, while more afluent parts of the city have had tens and hundres of millions of dollars invested in them.
A truck pumps emissions into the air as it drives along the Roosevelt Extension above Germantown Ave. in the Nicetown neighborhood of Philadelphia on Thursday, May 23, 2019. The overpass, built in the 1970s to help motorists quickly travel to downtown shopping, cuts through the middle of the neighborhood. Today, Nicetown has the highest rate of asthma in the city.
Majeedah Rashid, COO of the Nicetown Community Development Corporation, walks from her office to primary election voting at Nicetown Court I in Nicetown on Tuesday, May 21, 2019. The NTCDC has tried for year to develop the 2.5 acre space available under the Roosevelt Extension.