Justin Mott (born 1978) is an American photographer living in

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

. 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

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for 5 seasons in which Mott competes against and judges amateur photographers throughout

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainlan ...

Early life and education

Mott was born in Rhode Island in 1978. He moved to San Francisco in 1999 and studied photojournalism at

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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

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' book ''Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Viet Nam''. In 2005 Mott traveled to

to work on his own documentary project about Agent Orange victims. His project, titled "Legacy of Horror", was later published in ''

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'', awarded the Marty Forscher Fellowship for humanistic photography by the Parsons School of Design in New York, and published in the PDN Annual Photography Awards Issue. In 2007 Mott moved to

Hanoi Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi is ...

to work as a photojournalist. He has been working as a contributing photographer for ''

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'' 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

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in New York. PDN Annual, NPPA, CPOY, and the Missouri School of Journalism. *2013: One Shot – Extraordinary category of Travel Photographer of the Year, international.

Television

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mott, Justin Photographers from California 1978 births Living people