Justin grew up in Rhode Island with a journalism background from San Francisco State University. During his time in San Francisco Justin received the Greg Robinson Memorial Award, given to the College Photographer of the Year for San Francisco and the Bay Area. In 2007 he was accepted into the Eddie Adams Workshop in New York and won the Nikon Emerging Professional Scholarship for the University of Missouri Photo Workshop along with 4 awards(1 Gold) for CPOY in 2007. In 2008 his documentary work was recognized by PDN and he was awarded the Marty Forscher Fellowship(Professional Category)for humanistic photography given by sponsored by Parsons The New School for Design. In 2008 Justin was also nominated for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass.
Justin has been working in SE Asia since 2005 and currently resides in Hanoi, Vietnam. He is represented by Redux Pictures an archive of his work can been found on their website at
http://www.reduxpictures.com
Justin is co-founder of the multimedia storytelling website http://www.OnTheRoadMedia.com.
His personal projects, multimedia work, and assignments have been published in TIME, Newsweek, The New York Times, Business Week, L’EXPRESS,GEO,The Independent UK , Discovery Channel, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Global Exchange, and various other international publications.
Justin also works as a cameraman most recently filming on a series for Discovery Channel HD (Diwali-Revealed) and he shoots assignments throughout SE Asia for The New York Times Video Department.