Justin Mott (born 1978) is an American photographer living in
Vietnam. Mott specializes in wildlife photojournalism and conservation photography and is currently working on a long-term, self-funded project, Kindred Guardians, documenting people all over the world who dedicate their lives to helping animals. He was the resident professional photographer on ''
Photo Face-Off'', a reality TV show on
History Channel for 5 seasons in which Mott competes against and judges amateur photographers throughout
Southeast Asia.
Early life and education
Mott was born in Rhode Island in 1978. He moved to San Francisco in 1999 and studied
photojournalism
Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...
at
San Francisco State University from 2002 to 2006. He was selected to the
Eddie Adams Workshop in 2007. In 2007 he moved to Vietnam full-time.
Career
Mott was heavily influenced by Magnum photographer
Philip Jones Griffiths' book ''Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Viet Nam''. In 2005 Mott traveled to
Vietnam to work on his own documentary project about
Agent Orange
Agent Orange is a chemical herbicide and defoliant, one of the "tactical use" Rainbow Herbicides. It was used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. It ...
victims. His project, titled "Legacy of Horror", was later published in ''
Newsweek'', awarded the Marty Forscher Fellowship for humanistic photography by the
Parsons School of Design
Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...
in New York, and published in the
PDN Annual Photography Awards Issue.
In 2007 Mott moved to
Hanoi to work as a photojournalist. He has been working as a contributing photographer for ''
The New York Times'' in Southeast Asia since 2007. Mott has photographed over 100 diverse assignments for the ''Times'' covering a wide spectrum of topics throughout the region.
In 2009, Mott founded Mott Visuals, a commercial photography and video production business.
In 2013 Mott's work "Changing Face of Vietnam" was featured on the BBC.
Mott is currently working on a long term personal project title
"Kindred Guardians"dedicated to photographing the stories of people around the world who dedicate their lives to animal welfare and animal conservation.
* Awards
* 2019: IPA International Photography Awards. Kindred Guardians series documenting the plight of the last two remaining northern white rhinos.
* 2008:
Marty Forscher Fellowship for humanistic photography by the
Parson's School of Design in
New York
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Film and television
* '' ...
.
PDN Annual,
NPPA,
CPOY, and the
Missouri School of Journalism
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.
*2013: One Shot – Extraordinary category of
Travel Photographer of the Year, international.
Television
References
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Photographers from California
1978 births
Living people