BROOKE HERBERT (SHE/HER)

I’m an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker and visual journalist based in Portland, Oregon. Previously, I was a video producer at The Oregonian and a producer and director with Blue Chalk Media. I also worked as a multimedia editor at the Chicago Tribune. I spent the last six years living between the U.S. and New Delhi, India.

I earned my Master’s degree in visual journalism from Ohio University, where I also taught courses in photo editing and photojournalism. For my undergraduate degree, I studied painting, photography, printmaking and art history in my hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. My interest in photojournalism began early — when I claimed my late grandfather’s piles of National Geographic magazines that he hoarded in his trailer in Kentucky. My first camera was ordered from the back of a cereal box when I was 8. It was plastic, had no viewfinder and was my favorite toy.

I am a member of Women Photograph, The Journal collective and The Video Consortium. I am currently available for assignments in the U.S.

Give me a shout: abrookeherbert[at]gmail.com

+1 503-444-1831 (US)

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

Part 107 Drone Pilot
Wilderness First Aid

RECOGNITION

NW Regional Emmys  

2025 recipient of two Emmys for long-form documentary

2020, 2021, 2024 nominee

NPPA Best of Photography

2018 Feature multimedia story

2021 Second place, video and documentary

Society for Professional Journalists

2022, First place: video

2021, First place: video feature, hard news

Society for Features Journalism

2021, First place: video storytelling

2020, First place: video storytelling

ONPA

2022, First place: multimedia online

Best of the West

2022, First place, video storytelling

SELECTED CLIENTS & PUBLICATIONS

ProPublica

TIME

The Intercept

High Country News

CBS News

Getty

Blue Chalk Media

Voice of America

Chicago Tribune

CARE International

The Olympic Channel

The Oregonian

Oregon Public Broadcasting

HBO Max

Associated Press

Photo by Kenzie Bruce