Photo by Shannon O’Brien
The craziest sunset of my life in McLoud, Oklahoma. Photo by Olivia Merrion
I’m Emory Harger (they/them or he/him pronouns) and I am an Emmy-nominated storyteller living in rural midcoast Maine. I’ve been enjoying a somatic reset living in the country after six years freelancing in documentary filmmaker and photojournalism in the San Francisco Bay Area. I hold relationships and community at the center of everything I do, whether it be photography, video producing, filming, writing, grant writing, or marketing.
I am currently am the Director of Communications at the Maine Environmental Education Association, where I get to tell stories with the educators and youth we serve who are advocating for more just and environmentally sustainable communities and schools. I love working for an organization that expands access to getting outside, environmental education, Wabanaki Indigenous studies, and connecting with our shared natural world.
Documentary filmmaking has been an exploration of my own queerness. In 2022, I directed A SPACE FOR US, a participatory documentary created alongside some pretty amazing queer and transgender youth about their own experience of joy in the outdoors. I also directed OUTSPOKEN, an intergenerational portrait of the LGBTQ community in Parkersburg, West Virginia in the years following their city’s council voting down an LGBTQ human rights ordinance.
Previously, I was a Senior Producer at Insider’s News & Documentary team covering environmental stories for the World Wide Waste series. I got knee-deep in acid mine drainage to film with artists in my former home of Athens, Ohio; and collaborated with Ghanian journalists in Accra for this story about fast-fashion waste. I also edited a series about the complexities of de-escalation training in U.S. police departments in the context of the police brutality and homelessness crises in these U.S. cities.
My clients have included Downeast Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Dropbox, Bloomberg, The Center for Investigative Reporting, 100 Days in Appalachia, Studio B Films, The Bitter Southerner, The Atlantic, Kertis Creative, Narratively, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, WOUB Public Media, among others. In 2018, I was recognized as an Emerging Video Journalist by the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California chapter.
LOCATION
Maine, USA
CONTACT
emoryharger@gmail.com
207.314.6501
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