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.
Recent press:
“These Are the 200+ Artists in the Brooklyn Museum’s Open-Call Show,” Hyperallergic, Rhea Nayyar, August 27, 2024
“Interview with Climate Photographer and Filmmaker Nathan Kensinger,” Burning Worlds: Climate Change in Art and Literature, Amy Brady, May 30, 2023
“New museum exhibit showcases borough’s battle against climate change,” Staten Island Advance, Joseph Ostapiuk, April 27, 2023
“New multimedia exhibition, ‘Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens,’ explores climate change,” Brooklyn Paper, Isabel Song Beer, March 29, 2023
“10 years after Hurricane Sandy, New York City’s infrastructure is more resilient,” NPR, Weekend Edition Saturday, October 29, 2022
“Now and then: A photojournalist reviews how Hurricane Sandy transformed New York City,” WNYC, Morning Edition, Rosemary Misdary, October 26, 2022
“Ground Reclaimed: Lost Landscapes of Long Island City Projected Onto Hunter’s Point South Park,” Untapped New York, Michelle Young, June 16, 2022
“25 New Faces of Independent Film 2021,” Filmmaker Magazine, Erik Luers, October, 2021
“In New York City, ‘Managed Retreat’ Has Become a Grim Reality,” Inside Climate News, Ilana Cohen, July 4, 2020
“Exit Stage,” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Tom Stoelker, July 18, 2019
“Nathan Kensinger, documenting the climate crisis,” Clot Magazine, Allan Gardner, July 2019