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Photograph by Philip Montgomery.

Employment

Andrew Burton (b. 1987 / USA / He, Him) is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, documentary filmmaker and photojournalist focused on the intersection of environmentalism and exploration. Burton is a Sundance grantee who has worked on Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated films. He and his wife have two daughters and a dog named Bosco; they live in Seattle. He is a former fellow at the University of California, Berkeley's Investigative Reporting Program . Burton's first feature film, Newtok, was acquired and released by Patagonia Films and named “One of the Best Documentaries of the Year” by Esquire Magazine. He worked on HBO’s Thoughts and Prayers (2025) on both the camera and editing team, which won a Peabody award and was nominated for two primetime Emmy’s. He worked as a co-producer and cinematographer on the SXSW-premiere documentary The Life We Leave.

Burton’s upcoming documentary film credits as a director of photography and camera operator include South Sound (release 2027), Flight Path (release 2027), Authoritarians (release 2027) and The Badwater (release 2026). As a documentary editor, his film credits include Disrupted (2025), Taras (2025), and When They’re Dead and Gone (release 2027), amongst others.

Burton's photographic work has been honored by: Pulitzer Prize; Photographer of the Year International; Sundance Institute; American Photography; PDN Photo Annual; Sony World Photo Awards; Jonathan Logan Family Foundation; Museum of New York; Fund for Investigative Journalism; The Hearst Foundation; Society of Professional Journalists; Lumix Photo Festival; China International Press Photo Contest; New York Press Photographer's Association; College Photographer of the Year and Oregon Newspaper Publisher’s Association.

Burton has worked both as a staff photojournalist for Getty Images as well as a contract filmmaker and photographer covering breaking news and long-term stories locally, nationally and internationally.

Select Editorial Clients

The New York Times

National Geographic

New Yorker

HBO Films

Washington Post

The Guardian

Wall Street Journal

Getty Images

Associated Press

Reuters

Bloomberg News

PBS

Architectural Digest

Select Corporate Clients

Patagonia

Microsoft

Starbucks

Amazon

The North Face

Black Diamond

Honnold Foundation

Fjallraven

Visura

University of Washington

University of Minnesota

Town & Country Market

Awards / Honors

Pulitzer Prize, Finalist

Photographer of the Year Intl

Sundance Institute, Grantee

American Photography

PDN Photo Annual

Sony World Photo Awards

Jonathan Logan Family Foundation

Museum of New York, collection

Fund for Investigative Journalism, Grantee

The Hearst Foundation

Society of Professional Journalists

NY Press Photographer's Assc

College Photographer of the Year

Education

Burton has a degree in journalism with a focus in photography from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. He has been a Carnegie-Knight News21 fellowand was a student at Eddie Adams XXII. He has received first aid training for combat and wilderness wounds through Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues (RISC), Global Journalist Security and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Last Updated 24.10.37

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