Jacob Kushner

Biography

Jacob Kushner is a writer and photographer. His reportage has been published by the New Yorker, National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, and the Nation. He holds an MA in political journalism from Columbia University and is the author of China’s Congo Plan (Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, 2013). 

See Work

REPORTING / Spring 2017

They Call It Canaan

By Jacob Kushner ,  Photography by Allison Shelley

In the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, the most crowded city in one of the most densely packed countries in the Western Hemisphere, class and elevation are inextricably linked. The city was founded on the coast, at the foot of the Chaîne...