PHOTOGRAPHERS

AMY DEWAN
Survival Media Photographer
Amy Dewan is a photographer and law student who is discovering different ways to support the environmental justice movement at home and abroad. Along with producing a documentary for Project Survival Media and participating in PSM’s student caucus to the UN Conference of Climate Change in 2009, Amy Dewan has photographed for United Workers in Baltimore.
ALESSANDRO VECCHI
Survival Media Photographer
Alessandro Vecchi is a photographer deeply interested in climate change and well aware of its connections with economic policies, more specifically energy policies, and with social dynamics like migrations.


BEN POWLESS
Survival Media Photographer
Ben Powless is a Mohawk citizen and documentary photographer, videographer, writer and organizer who is heavily involved in the Indigenous rights and environmental justice movement around the world..
BETH BUGLIONE
Survival Media Photographer
Professional photographer Beth Buglione first picked up a camera at age 10 and instantly fell in love with the medium. She graduated from the University of Oregon school of Journalism and worked for a variety of photojournalism jobs, learning and appreciating the camera’s power to tell the stories of humanity.


BORA CHUNG
Survival Media Photographer
Bora Chung is an activist, cellist, photographer, and nursing student based in the DC/MD/VA region. She has been involved in her community for immigration and asylee rights by teaching English with Jubilee Housing and Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma. Bora has worked with 350.org to capture the resilient spirit of protestors during the Keystone Pipeline Action.
BROOKE ANDERSON
Survival Media Photographer
Brooke Anderson is a climate justice organizer and social movement photographer based in Oakland, CA. Brooke became involved in environmental justice at 17 years old when she helped shut down two toxic medical waste incinerators that were poisoning working class communities of color in her hometown in Champaign, IL. She then spent over a decade as a union and worker rights organizer, where she saw workers face disproportionate economic and ecological impacts of climate change.


CLÉMENT GUERRA
Survival Media Photographer
Clement Guerra completed his Master’s Degree in Sociology of Organizations and Business Strategy in 2004. Ever since, he has been travelling all over Europe, working as an International Marketing Consultant Manager as well as a professional photographer and filmmaker (Germany, Austria, Ireland, England, France). He has also helped many companies launch effective social-media campaigns in order to increase companies’ visibility. He speaks 4 languages fluently (working level): French, English, German and Spanish.
EMMA CASSIDY
Survival Media Photographer
Emma Cassidy is an editorial photographer who creates powerful images to support environmental and social justice campaigns that she cares about. Having worked for environmental organizations for many years, Emma has shown dedication to the environment through her campaign work, activism, and her photography. She believes that a photograph has the potential to change history and influence the way people see the world. Emma has photographed for many environmental and social justice organizations, including Tar Sands Action, DC Rising Tide, Rainforest Action Network, Students for a Free Tibet, Clean Wisconsin, and Greenpeace.


FENTON BOSE LUTUNATABUA
Survival Media Photographer
Having grown up in Fiji, Fenton Bose Lutunatabua feels a strong connection to the ocean and the environment. Fenton works across the region in 14 Pacific Island Countries, working hard to reshape the problematic narrative surrounding of Pacific Islanders from one of victimhood to one of agency. He has done this by drawing on the history of his people as ‘Warriors of the Pacific’, standing up for their island homes and everything they represent.
JEHAD SAFTAWI
Survival Media Photographer
Jehad Saftawni is a photographer and videographer from Gaza, Palestine. His work humanizes the issues that many Palestinians in Gaza face in ways that foreign journalists have only been able to attempt.


JOEL LUKHOVI
Survival Media Photographer
Joel Lukhovi is a photographer from Kenya, living in Nairobi. Throughout his childhood, Joel has always felt drawn to contribute his energy and passion to something bigger than himself—which has led him to his lifelong passion of photography.
JOSH LOPEZ
Survival Media Photographer
Josh Lopez is a photographer dedicated to supporting the environmental justice movement in the US and internationally, through his stunning visual work. Though having documented many actions within the environmental movement, he is most notable for his role with the U.S. Tar Sands Action taking place in August-November of 2011.


LARA ABURAMADAN
Survival Media Photographer
Lara Aburamadan is a photographer and a writer in Gaza Palestine. She is dedicated to telling powerful stories happening in and around Gaza from a her perspective as a Palestinian and a woman— a perspective often neglected by mainstream media.
MARLIN OLYNYK
Survival Media Photographer
Marlin Olynyk is a photographer and videographer whose strength is telling stories. Although new to bringing his narrative to the environmental movement, Marlin is excited to be one of the newest members of Survival Media Agency and help support the climate justice movement with the best tools he has available.


Morgan Levy
Survival Media Photographer
Morgan is a freelance photographer currently living in Denver, Colorado. Originally from Philadelphia, she lived and worked in New York and San Francisco for many years.
Robert van waarden
Survival Media Photographer
Robert van Waarden is Co-Coordinator of the Survival Media Agency and is a Dutch-Canadian photographer and storyteller. His work has been exhibited at the UN in New York, on Trafalagar’s Square in London, Ioannina, Greece and numerous other venues around the world. He strongly believes that positive and empowering imagery will help solve the climate crisis and visual communicators are essential to building a just, thriving world.


Sarah Craig
Survival Media Photographer
Sarah Craig is a documentary photographer and radio producer. A native of Bozeman, Montana, she grew up surrounded by horses and open space. She left the mountains for the East Coast to attend Vassar College. While there she completed a B.A. in Geography, and attended the Salt Institute of Documentary Studies for photography in Portland, Maine. In 2011, she traveled back West to California to pursue environmental and social documentary work.
Shadia Fayne Wood
Survival Media Photographer
Shadia Fayne Wood is a media director and a photographer coordinating media makers around the world in the fight for climate justice. She has managed photography teams for all major actions in the DC area on the Keystone XL pipeline, for all the national summits on climate change in the US Power Shift ‘07, ‘09, ‘11, and ‘13, as well as coordinated the media teams for the Youth Delegation at UN Climate Negotiations in ‘08 and ‘09.


Sunshine Velasco
Survival Media Photographer
My images evoke who you really are, the voice of your story, the different shades of your dreams, the truth of your everyday life. The lens captures the voices of those who share their own experiences with me. The raw, the grainy, the gritty. The movement, the angle, the music. I invite you to experience this beautiful journey, to see your reflection in my visions, to embody the fullness and richness of our lives, as I share my experience with you.