Nathan Kensinger is a Brooklyn based photographer, filmmaker, artist, and journalist whose work explores hidden urban landscapes, post-industrial ecologies, forgotten waterways, environmental contamination, and coastal communities endangered by sea level rise and climate change. He has lived and worked in South-West Brooklyn for the past 20 years, and during that time he has created an ongoing series of photo essays, documentary films, public arts projects, and video installations about New York City's changing waterfront. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Staten Island Museum, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, and in numerous galleries, and his films have screened at museums and film festivals worldwide, including the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen, DOC NYC, Slamdance, and Rooftop Films. His work has been featured by The New Yorker, New York Times, PBS NewsHour, National Public Radio, and Wall Street Journal. In 2021, Kensinger was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces In Independent Film” for his films investigating environmental cleanups and the impacts of climate change in New York City. He previously wrote a column of photo essays about the city’s waterfront neighborhoods for Curbed/Vox Media from 2012 to 2020, and is currently a freelance environmental journalist, with bylines appearing at Gothamist/WNYC, New York City’s public radio station.
