I'm an independent journalist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2009 I produced Full Disclosure, a documentary based on my embeds in Iraq with a U.S. Marine infantry unit, for which I received grants from the Ford Foundation and the Applied Research Center. The documentary premiered at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in 2010.

My photos have appeared in The New York Times, Politiken (Copenhagen), on PixelPress.org, and other publications and websites. I have written for Mother Jones, The Huffington Post, the Nation Investigative Fund blog, ColorLines, among others. I'm on the faculty of The School of Visual Arts' MFA Photography, Video, & Related Media Program and have taught in the Photo & Imaging Department at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

I completed a photography residency at Objectifs Center for Photography and Filmmaking in Singapore and received a Nation Institute grant to report from Bangladesh, both in early 2010. Currently, I'm a Fellow at New York University Law School's Center on Law and Security researching and reporting on U.S. counterterrorism policy in South Asia and Africa.

From 2000 to 2002 I was an on-air correspondent at CNN. Prior to that, I was a staff writer at Fortune and Beijing Bureau Chief for US News & World Report. From 1993 to 1996 I was a Staff Photographer at US News. I started my journalism career at the Village Voice newspaper in New York City.

I earned a BA in East Asian Studies from Brown University and an MFA in Photography from New York City's School of Visual Arts.