Bio/Contact

jake@jakenaughton.com 

+521 55 5107 5756 (Mexico Cell)

+1 262 352 3315 (WhatsApp)

Mailing List | Instagram

Clients + Publications

Guardian Weekend Magazine
Highline
HUCK
New York Times
NPR
Playboy
Quanta
The Atavist
The Nation
them
VICE
Washington Post
Wired Magazine
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Instagram
MasterCard Foundation
New Lab
Pentagram
Schultz Family Foundation
Smithsonian Institution
Storefront Gallery for Art and Architecture

Jake Naughton is a Mexico City-based visual artist and journalist making work about queer identity in the present moment. This takes the form of long-term, in-depth projects, like This is How the Heart Beats, about East Africa’s LGBTQ community, Both Sides of the Veil, which showcases a strange limbo for India's queer community, or When We Were Strangers, which explores and deconstructs love through the prism of his own relationship with his partner.

He is interested in upending the ways stories are told and presented, and in service of that he co-founded the storytelling incubator Suno Labs. 

He loves collaborating, so give him a shout.

Features + Interviews

New York Times Lens
Artsy
PDN Photo of the Day
Lenscratch
Flash Forward Flash Back
National Geographic Proof
PDN 30
TIME Lightbox
Strange Fire

Publications

When We Were Strangers, monograph, Red Hook Editions
Flash Forward, 2018, 2017, 2016
6th Lumix Festival Catalog, 2017
American Photography 33, 2016

Currently in: Mexico City

Honors + Awards

Nominee, Foam Paul Huf Award
Flash Forward 100, Magenta Foundation
Nominee, Tim Hetherington Trust Visionary Award
Finalist, Robert Giard Fellowship
American Photography 32, 33, 34
Finalist, Young Guns 15, Art Directors Club
PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch
Reporting Grant, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
Emerging Photographer Project Grant, Magenta Foundation
Nominee, Joop Swart Masterclass
Selected Photographer, The New York Times Portfolio Review
Selected Photographer, LOOK3/LookBetween

Exhibitions | Installation Views

2019
When We Were Strangers, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, NY
Both Sides of the Veil, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
Female Genital Mutilation: 68 Million Girls at Risk, United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY

2018
This is How the Heart Beats, Lumix Festival, Hanover, Germany

2017
Dual Shadows: East Africa’s LGBT Refugees, Photoville, New York NY
The Censored Exhibition, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

2016
Magenta Flash Forward, Division Gallery, Toronto, Canada
New York Stories, Photoville, New York NY
Dysturb, Palermo, Italy & Scotiabank Contact Photo Festival, Toronto, Canada

2015
Welcome to Dilley, Photoville, New York NY