when the dust clears

Here you’ll find reported stories—in text, still photos, video, and audio—and topical essays about matters political, social, and military and their various intersections.

Please feel free to comment, disagree, amplify.

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I am an independent journalist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. I write for Mother Jones, Huffington Post, ColorLines, and other publications and blogs. I have contributed video reporting to (the now defunct) Now with David Brancaccio and World Politics Review and photographed for The New York Times, Politiken, and other publications and outlets. Previously, I was a CNN correspondent, Beijing Bureau Chief for US News & World Report, a staff photographer for US News, and an assistant editor/factcheker for the Village Voice newspaper.

In 2010, my first documentary, Full Disclosure, screened in the Maysles Institute “Winter Soldiers: Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan” program, at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival. I received grants from the Ford Foundation and the Applied Research Center to complete Full Disclosure.

I have been a Fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security since Fall 2009. In early 2010, I received a grant from the Nation Investigative Fund to support video and print reporting in Bangladesh in 2010. (I also contribute pieces to the fund’s blog, www.theinvestigativefund.org.)

I am on the faculty at the School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media.
I graduated from Brown University with a BA in East Asian Studies (China) and the School of Visual Arts with in MFA in photography.