Portrait of Zara Katz, a woman with medium hair, wearing a black shirt with a necklace and looking to the left away from the camera.
Zara Katz
Photo courtesy Zara Katz
Director & Producer

Zara Katz (she/her) is a filmmaker and photo producer for editorial, documentary, and branded content, specializing in crafting character-driven visual stories. Katz is currently Photography Director at NBC News and has worked with media outlets including The New York Times Lens blog, Time magazine, Medium, The Guardian US, Pop-Up Magazine, and Lifetime/A+E Networks. She was the Senior Photography Producer on Project #ShowUs, a Getty Images/Dove campaign, in which more than 100 women and nonbinary photographers participated. The campaign won the Silver Glass Lion at Cannes 2019.

In 2014, Katz and Riordan Seville co-created Everyday Incarceration, an Instagram account featuring visual stories of 40 years of mass incarceration. Their work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Photoville, and FOTODOKS, and was featured on The New York Times' Instagram account. A Woman on the Outside is their first feature documentary.

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