I’m an award-winning visual journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. My photography has been featured in the Associated Press, the San Francisco Standard and the San Francisco Chronicle, where I interned in the summer of 2024. Currently, I’m doing a worldwide tour of my documentary, The Glacier Wedding, which follows a crew of scientists and farmworkers in the northeast of Pakistan reviving an ancient glacier stewardship ritual.
I’m particularly interested in putting my broad skillset in research, photography and videography to use on projects where human stories intersect with the environment — though I am available for freelance photo and video assignments of all kinds in the Bay Area.
Let’s work together!
thomas sawano 