jmaxonimages@gmail.com
+01 415 439 3033
Location: Eureka - San Francisco, CA
Justin Maxon (he/him) is an award-winning photographer, educator, and social practice artist. He is a faculty member in the Art Department at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, and holds an MFA in Art and Social Practice from Portland State University. Born and raised in Humboldt County, he split his time between the Hoopa Valley Reservation and Eureka.
His practice is interdisciplinary and collaborative, combining photography with video, performance, narrative, and sculptural forms to create dialogical spaces that foster inclusivity, community participation, and the value of person and place. He often develops projects and community networks that provide individuals —often excluded from dominant spaces —opportunities to become resources for themselves and their communities.
He has received over $350,000 in funding for his work. Including being named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow while receiving the 2024 1492/1619 American Aftermath Project Grant, the Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship, and the Alexia Foundation Grant. He was named one of PDN’s 30 Photographers to Watch. He was selected to participate in World Press Photo’s Joop Swart Masterclass. He has won two 1st place awards from World Press Photo. He won the Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year at the Lucie Awards.
His work has been exhibited widely, including at the Museum of Chinese in America; the Museum de Arte Acarigua-Araure in Venezeula, the Wave Pool Gallery during the FotoFocus Biennale, the OneArts Space in New York, the Bermuda National Gallery, the Air Circulation Gallery in New York, the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, the Lodz Fotofestiwal in Poland, and the Singapore International Photography Festival.
As a photographer, he has worked on feature and cover stories for publications such as TIME, Atlantic Magazine, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Mother Jones Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fast Company, Fader Magazine, The New York Times, and NPR.