Brian L. Frank

b. 1979

A San Francisco native, Brian L. Frank has created social documentary projects across the Americas focusing on cultural identity, social inequality, violence, workers rights and the environment.

Most recently, he co-founded the Tacet-Eye Long Form Documentary Workshop. His recent collaboration with For Freedoms and National Geographic documents faith in the California migrant worker community. He is a Professor of Journalism and a Catchlight Global-Fellow. His work with Catchlight, The Pulitzer Center and The Marshall Project has focused on mass incarceration’s effects on minority communities and visuals-based, education curriculum development.

His 2-year project, Downstream, Death of the Colorado, is held in permanent collection at the United States Library of Congress and was recognized by POYi with the Global Vision Award. His work has been recognized with numerous other awards both nationally and internationally.

Upon completing the Journalism program at SFSU, he worked primarily for The Wall Street Journal from 2008 – 2014 and currently focuses on long-term documentary magazine features in California, the American Southwest, and Mexico.

His work has frequently appeared in most major national and international publications, including National Geographic, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Harpers, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The New York Times and many other publications.

Celina Fang

Celina Fang is a senior multimedia editor who guides visual storytelling for The Marshall Project. Previously, she was a photo editor for the National and Metro sections of The New York Times. Her work as an editor has been recognized by the Pulitzer Prizes, Pictures of the Year International, NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism, the Society for News Design, the Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts and the World Illustration Awards.

Jovelle Tamayo

Jovelle Tamayo is a Filipinx American documentary photographer, visuals editor, and media educator. In 2023, they joined The Marshall Project, where they work with photojournalists, illustrators and other creatives on stories about prisons, courts, and people harmed by the criminal justice system.

Jovelle has contributed visual journalism to publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, California Sunday Magazine and High Country News, and previously covered daily news and sports for newspapers in Central Washington and the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. As a founding member of Authority Collective, which builds community and opportunity for women and non-binary image-makers of color, they co-produced projects like the Lit List, Photo Bill of Rights, and the Photographer’s Guide to Inclusive Photography. They’ve taught journalism courses to college students at the University of Washington, and filmmaking, photography and animation to youth through Reel Girls, South End Stories, Seattle International Film Festival and The Everyday Projects.

The Marshall Project

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. We have an impact on the system through journalism, rendering it more fair, effective, transparent and humane.