Co-Founder, Documentary Filmmaker & Photojournalist
Jake Price is an award-winning multimedia journalist, documentary filmmaker, and co-founder of Newsmotion.org whose longform photojournalism chronicles environmental disasters, post-conflict recovery, and grassroots civic resilience.
Jake Price co-founded Newsmotion.org in 2011 to bridge the divide between independent documentary artists, veteran foreign correspondents, and local citizen storytellers around the world.
Following the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Price spent extensive periods in Tōhoku and Fukushima Prefecture producing The Children of Fukushima (featured in HuffPost The WorldPost) and the interactive documentary Unknown Spring, which was selected for the Sundance Institute New Frontier Story Lab and honored by World Press Photo.
At Newsmotion, Price also oversaw collaborative video curation projects including Can 114 Videos Tell One Story About Forced Evictions in Rio? in partnership with WITNESS.
An inside look at collaborative human rights video journalism in Rio de Janeiro, synthesizing 114 citizen-shot videos documenting forced evictions in Vila Autódromo and favela communities ahead of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
Longform photojournalism and documentary dispatch by Newsmotion co-founder Jake Price, documenting how children and parents in Fukushima Prefecture navigate radiation monitoring, displacement, and recovery.
Review essay examining Stephen Maing's documentary 'High Tech, Low Life', which chronicles two generations of Chinese citizen bloggers—'Zola' and 'Tiger Temple'—reporting across the Great Firewall.
Longform photojournalism essay by Unembedded co-author Kael Alford, examining the lives of Iraqi women balancing professional livelihoods, sectarian security pressures, and public visibility.