I am available for hire for commercial, documentary, portraiture, and couples sessions.
I photograph using digital, 35mm film, and 120mm film cameras.
Featured clients: Downeast Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, Huffington Post, Dropbox, Bloomberg, The Center for Investigative Reporting, 100 Days in Appalachia, Sage Eldercare, Studio B Films, The Bitter Southerner, The Atlantic, Kertis Creative, Narratively, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, WOUB Public Media, among others.
I make photos with people and places.
Let’s make something together.
About Emory (they/he)
I’m an Emmy-nominated storyteller living in rural midcoast Maine. I hold relationships and community at the center of everything I do, whether it be photography, video producing, filming, writing, grant writing, or marketing.
Photography has allowed me space to expand otherwise narrow definitions of the identities I hold and the places I live. Originally from Monongahela, Pennsylvania - an Appalachian post-coal & steel town - I started making photos at a young age about the change my home region experienced. Now I focus primarily on photographing with queer and transgender communities living in rural America. Dispelling the dismal stereotypes of queer and rural communities has always been at the center of my photography.
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.
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