Imagining an Equitable Water Future for NYC
In 2024, we awarded the Photo Urbanism Fellowship to photographer and journalist Nathan Kensinger to document efforts towards an equitable water future for New York.
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Nathan Kensinger
2024-2025: Water
Nathan Kensinger is a Brooklyn based photographer, filmmaker, journalist, and artist whose work explores hidden urban landscapes, post-industrial ecologies, forgotten waterways, and coastal communities endangered by sea level rise and climate change. Over the past 15 years, he has created a series of photo essays, documentary films, public arts projects, and video installations about New York City’s changing waterfront. His work has been featured in The New Yorker, New York Times, PBS NewsHour, and National Public Radio, and exhibited by the Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, and Staten Island Museum. His films have screened internationally at the National Museum of Cinema in Italy, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and Danish Film Institute. Kensinger is a Senior Fellow at the NYC College of Technology’s Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center, and is currently directing a feature-length documentary about sea level rise and the future of New York.
