J Carrier (b. USA) spent the better part of a decade living and working in Africa and the Middle East, followed by tours in Brooklyn and Washington DC. He relocated to central Vermont with his family during the pandemic summer of 2020.
J has a BS in Wildlife & Fisheries science and Forestry from the Pennsylvania State University (1996) and an MFA from the Hartford Art School (2012). He is a mentor with Image Threads Collective and has taught at Cornell University, International Center of Photography (NYC), and Western Connecticut State. He is currently an Assistant Professor at George Mason University.
J's commissioned work regularly appeared in the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Time, Fortune, CNN, Newsweek, Men's Journal, XXL, Dazed and Confused, Le Monde, and the Financial Times garnering many awards (NY photo awards, AI+AP, Center). He was nominated for PDN30 (2016), the John Gutmann Photography Fellowship (2013 & 2012), and was a finalist for the Santa Fe Prize for photography (2011).
J’s artistic practice centers on the photobook and he has published 7 books. Most recently Mi´raj (TIS, 2024), the second book in his Palestine/Israel trilogy. The first book in this series, Elementary Calculus (Mack, 2012) was selected for numerous "best of the year" lists (including by Time Magazine, Alec Soth/LBM, Photo-Eye, ICP) and was also included in the 2013 International Center of Photography Triennial.
He is currently finishing work on the third volume in this series Adraba: Incircles, composed of photographs made over a ten-year period in Palestine and Israel. This project was recently awarded the Polycopies & Co. 2024 publishing grant and will be published by TIS in the coming year.
Other books include untitled 1 (TIS, 2014), untitled 2 (TIS, 2016),The Folly (TIS, 2021), Easter Sunday, (Poppy-Jem Press, 2022), and 7:31 (Poppy-Jem Press 2022).